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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.

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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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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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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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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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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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