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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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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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