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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
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 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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Duty Faces Found Friend
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Embroidery Star Way
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
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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Know Mean Wicked
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
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Imagination Realms View
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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College Everywhere Lesson Life
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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Acquaintance Matter Tree Year
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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Believe Color Drab Rather Wise
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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May Stars Twilight
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Air Inspirational Mistake
Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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Arms Made Mother People
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Fact Half Stubborn

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