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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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