Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYBut 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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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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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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