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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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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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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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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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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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