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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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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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    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: despair, hope
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “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.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: ambition
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. Macmillan from L.M. Montgomery
    tags: love
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: friendship, loss, sadness
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: philisophical
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
    7535 likes



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