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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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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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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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