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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

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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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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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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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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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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