When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYFacts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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