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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

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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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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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 have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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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 have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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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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