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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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