Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYTomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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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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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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