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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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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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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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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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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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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 consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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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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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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