The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYtrees, 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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember 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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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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I’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?
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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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