Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMrs. 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?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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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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