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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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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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.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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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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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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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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