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?
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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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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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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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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