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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as..
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sadness
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She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.
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What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!
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Why did you kill Maurice Lennox?" she asked reproachfully.
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And Gilbert was dying!
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Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.
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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
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