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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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 [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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True friends are always together in spirit.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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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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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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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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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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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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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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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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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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