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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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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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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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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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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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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've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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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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 can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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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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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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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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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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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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