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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWhat had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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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
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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 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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