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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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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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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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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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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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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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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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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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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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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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