Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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