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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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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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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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