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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

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
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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 wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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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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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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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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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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