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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.
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 feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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