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- I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . 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.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Sense and Sensibility, 1811
- An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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