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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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