I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYA 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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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