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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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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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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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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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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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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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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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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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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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