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- Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
- There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget…
- there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
- Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
- People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't…
- I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS…
- Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such…
- Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
- 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…
- It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends…
- The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
- People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
- I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody…
- Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they…
- Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
- Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do…
- Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great…
- Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never…
- I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
- That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
- Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking…
- Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is…
- I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like…
- …I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
- There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
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