A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.
…unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
Човек свиква на всичко, дори и с обесване, както казват ирландците.
You think, Rilla,' mother said quietly—far too quietly—'that it was right to spend so much for a hat, especially when the need of the world is so great?' 'I paid for it out of my own allowance, mother...
Wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams. Slowly the banners of the sunset city gave up their crimson and gold; slowly the conqueror's pageant faded out. Twilight crept over the...
Wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been NO separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but tho...
Wonder if Mr. Alec Davis would come back and ha'nt me if I threw a stone at the urn on top of his tombstone, said Jerry. Mrs. Davis would, giggled Faith. She just watches us in church like a cat watch...
Where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight
Whenever we think of anything thatis a trial to us we should also think of somethingnice that we can set over against it.
Was not a pleasant day, and to make matters worse it rained until late in the afternoon. The Story Girl had not recovered from the mortifications of the previous day; she would not talk, and she would...
Triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle. Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle
There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
Splendid to think of all the things there are to find out
She never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.
Ruthlessly
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
Part due to accidental circumstances—the
Oft
Not true—it's not, gasped Rilla. The thing would be—ridiculous, said Gertrude Oliver—and then she laughed horribly. Susan,
Life still called to her with many insistent voices.