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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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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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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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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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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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