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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.
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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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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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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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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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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