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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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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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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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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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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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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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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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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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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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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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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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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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