We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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