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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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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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