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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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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
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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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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
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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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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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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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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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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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