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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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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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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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