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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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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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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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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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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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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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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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