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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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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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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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