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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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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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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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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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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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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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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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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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