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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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'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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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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