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“I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”

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“There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.”

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“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.”

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“I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.”

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“I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”

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“But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.”

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“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

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“Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.”

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“What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.”

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“The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.”

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“It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.”

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“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

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“All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.”

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“All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.”

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“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”

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“Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?”

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“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 would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.”

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“You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.”

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“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

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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 out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”

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“God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.”

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“Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!”

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“Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely”

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“Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.”

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“Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”

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“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 so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.”

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“But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?”

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“I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.”

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“I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.”

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“That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.”

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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 to be alive-it's such an interesting world.”

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