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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect 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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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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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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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