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“Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it.”

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“Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn’t much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don’t always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.”

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“Lo que quiero conseguir del curso en la universidad es algún conocimiento sobre la mejor manera de vivir la vida y sacarle el máximo y mejor provecho. Quiero aprender para entender y ayudar a otra gente y a mí misma. (...) Ese es el fin que debe tener la universidad, en lugar de producir un montón de licenciados y graduados, tan atragantados de libros y vanidad que no les queda sitio para otra cosa.”

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Book:Anne of Avonlea
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“Poi... sei arrivata tu. Ho dovuto credere che tu mi amassi, che amassi veramente me, non i milioni di mio padre. Non c'era altro motivo per cui avresti voluto sposare un diavolo senza un penny e con i miei ipotetici precedenti. E io provavo pena per te. Oh, sì, non nego di averti sposata perché provavo pena per te. E poi... ho scoperto che eri la migliore, la più allegra e la più cara compagna che avessi mai avuto. Spiritosa, leale, dolce. Mi hai costretto a credere nuovamente nella vera amicizia e nel vero amore. Il mondo sembrava di nuovo bello perché c'eri tu, tesoro mio. Desideravo che continuasse così per sempre tra di noi. L'ho capito la notte in cui sono tornato a casa e ho visto per la prima volta la luce della mia casa che risplendeva sull'isola. E sapevo che tu eri lì ad aspettarmi. Dopo essere stato senza una casa per tutta la vita, era bello averne una. Tornare affamato a notte inoltrata e sapere che c'era un buon pasto e un fuoco accogliente - e che c'eri tu.”

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Book:The Blue Castle
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“We have The Idylls of the King in English class this term. I like some things in them, but I detest Tennyson's Arthur. If I had been Guinevere I'd have boxed his ears - but I wouldn't have been unfaithful to him for Lancelot, who was just as odious in a different way. As for Geraint, if I had been Enid I'd have bitten him. These 'patient Griseldas' deserve all they get.”

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“Gilbert laughed and clasped tighter the girlish hand that wore his ring. Anne's engagement ring was a circlet of pearls. She had refused to wear a diamond. "I've never really liked diamonds since I found out they weren't the lovely purple I had dreamed. They will always suggest my old disappointment ." "But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes-- when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables--when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had--when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.”

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Book:Anne's House of Dreams
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“She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet. Every idea came to her mind robed in its own especial hue. Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm, conveying to the listeners' perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music.”

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Book:The Golden Road
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“I do NOT like patchwork,” said Anne dolefully, hunting out her workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white diamonds with a sigh. “I think some kinds of sewing would be nice; but there’s no scope for imagination in patchwork. It’s just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere. But of course I’d rather be Anne of Green Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing to do but play.”

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