There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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