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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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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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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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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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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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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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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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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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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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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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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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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