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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

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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
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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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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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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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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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