It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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