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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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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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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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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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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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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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