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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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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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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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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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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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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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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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To dispair is to turn your back on God.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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