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June 24 - July 5, 2024
"If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and SNEEZED, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!"
The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
"If Davy is naughty it's all the more reason why he should have good training, isn't it, Marilla? If we don't take them we don't know who will, nor what kind of influences may surround them.
You told us to describe something strange we have seen. I will describe the Avonlea Hall.
P.S. The hall is a very bright blue.'"
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Life is rich and full here . . . everywhere . . . if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness."
The next day Mirabel Cotton was kept in at recess and "gently but firmly" given to understand that when you were so unfortunate as to possess an uncle who persisted in walking about houses after he had been decently interred it was not in good taste to talk about that eccentric gentleman to your deskmate of tender years.
"That is one good thing about this world . . . there are always sure to be more springs."
"Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things,"
"but I don't care so much for things like that as I did two years ago. What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself."