It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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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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