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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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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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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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