There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYA child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in 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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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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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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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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