L.M. Montgomery quote: "If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying."

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. ...
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn...
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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though ...
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative pe...
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But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
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I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back her...
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It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it...
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last...
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I coul...
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Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look...
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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when ...
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Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... Yet.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad...
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
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It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate...
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Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its ...
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go o...
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Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome pe...
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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to ...
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Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of...
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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that...
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And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they ca...
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Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be an...
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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep...
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell wh...
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on ...
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It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," s...
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In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf...
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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelica...
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Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I...
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely.

Anne laughed, sipp...
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and w...
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I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has fo...
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Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to ...
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight ri...
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather d...
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without p...
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Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
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I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
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Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But ...
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I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes...
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It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time." - Anne Shirley
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...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" ...
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There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know ...
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Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile an...
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I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonel...
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A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over ...
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands fo...
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broke...
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures whic...
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are...
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[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I ...
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surr...
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a...
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At le...
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All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.
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For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's...
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So ther...
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There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not fo...
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Make them do as you want them to," she said.
"I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unma...
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Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, ...
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You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from ...
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Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?”
For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, ne...
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Gi...
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ...
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves...
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Josie is a Pye,” said Marilla sharply, “so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people...
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Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missin...
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Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair."
— Anne Shirley
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people wh...
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think w...
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Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your ow...
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That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; ...
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There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things an...
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Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I stick...
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I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as...
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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
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I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person wo...
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I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'...
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I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
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It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a worl...
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Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mist...
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomf...
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I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of ...
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It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think?
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Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders...
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Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've bee...
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The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime....
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I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinki...
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That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about th...
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What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.

"Well, that all depends on ...
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Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,' decla...
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All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing ...
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I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautifu...
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That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
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Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map…located east of Today and west of Yesterday…and we have ...
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to he...
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Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full s...
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than ...
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It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some ...
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.
Anne glowed.
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Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taug...
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on tryi...
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often...
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Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a w...
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, ev...
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Everything that's worth having is some trouble…
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I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes o...
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Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, "home o'dreams," than it captivated her fancy and she immedia...
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Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them ...
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who...
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't i...
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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I've come home in love with loneliness
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You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I coul...
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset......
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Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in sil...
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are ...
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Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.
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Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'

'No witch...
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Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.
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I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ...
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He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use ...
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Desire grows by what it feeds on.
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Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
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I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you...
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...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel g...
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it c...
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.
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Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
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Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am...
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share th...
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But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. ...
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If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have spr...
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? ...
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Never on painter's canvas lives
The charm of his fancy's dream.
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The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.
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She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.
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If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.
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If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

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If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

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