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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.
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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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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