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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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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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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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
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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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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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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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True friends are always together in spirit.
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