There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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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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