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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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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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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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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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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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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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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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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