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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

It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Cruelty Kind Worst
most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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People Thanks Uneasyness Worry
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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Little Lonely Sometimes
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
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
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Anticipation Forward Half Look
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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Anger Children Deceitful
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Believe Giving Return
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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Sociable Tree Whispering
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
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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Comfort End Limit Mistake People
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Long Memories Remember
Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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Arms Made Mother People
It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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Beautiful Inspiration Morning
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
Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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Jest Look Lost Sorter Wicked
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Imaginary Use World
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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Night Sleep World
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Bad Create Few People Thing
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Encouraging Positive Uplifting
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.
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Ambition Anxiety Self
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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Half Interest Language

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

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