Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWhat had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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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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