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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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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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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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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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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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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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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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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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