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Like most narrow-minded people, he was extraordinarily self-assured.

Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman

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Who can I ask? Who's going to answer? Who can turn this blade away from my heart?

Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman

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Remember, then, that when you fancy yourself alone and wrapt in darkness, you stand, in fact, in the centre of a theatre, as wide as the starry floor of heaven, with an audience, whom no man can number, beholding you under a flood of light.

Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu

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[...] but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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I’ve done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the ‘joy of the strife.’ Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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I’m not a bit changed—not really. I’m just pruned down and branched out.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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[...] and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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‘If you can’t be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.’

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn’t it?

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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And when people mean to be good to you, you don’t mind very much when they’re not quite—always.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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I am so fond of romantic things, and a graveyard full of buried hopes is about as romantic a thing as one can imagine isn’t it? I’m rather glad I have one.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with the dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wondering afar, star-led.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott