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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.
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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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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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.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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