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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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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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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. 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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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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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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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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