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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 am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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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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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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