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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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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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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 have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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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 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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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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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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