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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome 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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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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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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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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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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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