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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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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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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 love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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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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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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