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    L.M. Montgomery
    “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.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: home, inspirational, pearls, pleasures, simple
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
    tags: authors, books, writing
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”
    ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
    tags: journals, writing
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation
    845 likes

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    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: humor, laughter
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: fellowship-of-the-ring, frodo, shire, tolkien
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    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Magic World
    tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: cheating, fate, humor, misfortune, top-8, unfairness
    320 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: labels, names, power-of-words
    668 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, children-s-books, reading
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: book, memory, roses
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    Jane Austen
    “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: awkward, awkwardness, shy, shyness
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    Jane Austen
    “I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: austen, mansfield-park, quiet, shy
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    Jane Austen
    “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: jane-austen, jane-austen-book-club
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    Charles Dickens
    “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: growth, heart, life, suffering
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    “The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window:
    TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAIN
    PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS.
    She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said.
    "Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.”
    ― Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers
    tags: brothers, constance-savery, enemy-brothers, germany, great-britian, trains, world-war-2
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    Elizabeth Goudge
    “In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.”
    ― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
    tags: character, humor, weather
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    Elizabeth Goudge
    “Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
    ― Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
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