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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

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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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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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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