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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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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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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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