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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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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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