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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.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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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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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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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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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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