One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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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’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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