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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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Prince Edward Island
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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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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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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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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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