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It was a pleasure to wonder what her elbows must be like.
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them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.
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He pipes--he pipes--and we must follow--Jem and Carl and Jerry and I--round and round the world. Listen-- listen--can't you hear his wild music?" The girls shivered."
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she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings--which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.
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I have never liked cats," said Mrs. Gardner remotely. "I love them," said Dorothy. "They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."
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Dorrie dear, smooth that pucker out.
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Because I simply couldn't make up my mind to do it. I never can make up my mind about anything myself--I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's a dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.
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Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.
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She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.
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What is to be, will be," said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, "and what isn't to be happens sometimes."
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Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.
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Oh, 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.
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it with an E. We had recitations this afternoon. I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put my whole soul into it. Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my
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Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband." Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband."
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It was sad, tragic--and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU.
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Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination.
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As Mrs. Lynde says, 'If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid
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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. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
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It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores.
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when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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But it's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?
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Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,
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Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.
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nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.
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When people ask me that absurd question "Do you like children?" I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - "Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority."
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Zycie nie moze zatrzymac sie w biegu pomimo dziejacych sie na jego drodze tragedii.
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Podoba mi sie czlowiek, ktorego oczy mowia wiecej niz wargi.
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Well, they're splendid to amuse children with," said Diana. "Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour." "I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton's catalogue," said Mrs. Rachel severely."
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now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.
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What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
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Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such EXQUISITE dimples in her cheeks. I wish I had dimples in my cheeks, Marilla. I'm not half so skinny as I was when I came here, but I have no dimples yet. If I had perhaps I could influence people for good.
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There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that YOUR soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again.
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A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.
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I'm afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily.
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Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.
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at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place.
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Babies are such fascinating creatures," said Anne dreamily. "They are what I heard somebody at Redmond call, 'terrific bundles of potentialities.'..."
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Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped
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It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.
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Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.
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Aunt Elizabeth," said Katherine one day, "does anybody ever die in Harbour Hill? Because it doesn't seem to me it would be any change for them if they did."
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Sure and ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.
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