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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Lucy Maud Montgomery

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Ambition Anxiety Self
Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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Look Serious Sober
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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October September Skip World
It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Gables Graduation Green World
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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Degrad Evil Fear World
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Imagination Realms View
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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Diana Knee Speak
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting
It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Get Harder Satisfaction
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Honeym Night Wine Wormwood

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

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