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?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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