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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley

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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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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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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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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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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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.
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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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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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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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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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