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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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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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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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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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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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