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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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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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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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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'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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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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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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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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