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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

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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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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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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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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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