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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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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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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
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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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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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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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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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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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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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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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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