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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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