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“Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.”
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“...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
― Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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