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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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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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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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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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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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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