I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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