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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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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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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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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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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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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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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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