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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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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[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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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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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.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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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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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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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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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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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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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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