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?
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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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