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“It's a pretty good world, after all, isn't it, Marilla?" concluded Anne happily. "Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed... perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either... they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside

“for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

“I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside