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Quite Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.…
- It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal…
- Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no…
- I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank…
- We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after…
- You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
- ...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
- We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be…
- 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 hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
- It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of…
- Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think,…
- Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when…
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