I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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.
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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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