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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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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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I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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