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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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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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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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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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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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