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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

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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Prince Edward Island
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in 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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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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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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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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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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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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