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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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 always love best the people who need us.
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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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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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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 don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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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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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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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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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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