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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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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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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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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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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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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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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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