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 really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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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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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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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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