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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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