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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

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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Prince Edward Island
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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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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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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