Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFacts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with 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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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