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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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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Degrad Evil Fear World
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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Lamb Twilight Winter
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Look Pleasure World
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Animal Good Things Nature Spring
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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Night Sleep World
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Back Book Come Hate
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Believe Giving Return
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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Emotion Enjoy People Quiet Talk
It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Get Harder Satisfaction
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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Half Interest Language
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Honeym Night Wine Wormwood

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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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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