I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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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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