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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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'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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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of 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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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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