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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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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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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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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