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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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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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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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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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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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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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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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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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