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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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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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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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