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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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 love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
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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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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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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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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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