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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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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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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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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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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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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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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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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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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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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
True friends are always together in spirit.
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