Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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