We must have ideals and try to live up to them , even if we never quite succeed . Life would be a sorry business without them . With them it 's grand and great . Hold fast to your ideals , Anne . '' `` I shall try . But I have to let go most of my theories , '' said Anne , laughing a little . `` I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am , but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another . '' `` Even the theory on corporal punishment , '' teased Mrs. Allan . But Anne flushed . `` I shall never forgive myself for whipping Anthony . '' `` Nonsense , dear , he deserved it . And it agreed with him . You have had no trouble with him since and he has come to think there 's nobody like you . Your kindness won his love after the idea that a ` girl was no good ' was rooted out of his stubborn mind . '' `` He may have deserved it , but that is not the point . If I had calmly and deliberately decided to whip him because I thought it a just punishment for him I would not feel over it as I do . But the truth is , Mrs. Allan , that I just flew into a temper and whipped him because of that . I was n't thinking whether it was just or unjust ... even if he had n't deserved it I 'd have done it just the same . That is what humiliates me . '' `` Well , we all make mistakes , dear , so just put it behind you .
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them , but never carry them forward XXXXX the future with us .
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