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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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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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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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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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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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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