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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

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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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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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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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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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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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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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
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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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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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