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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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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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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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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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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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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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