A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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 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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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