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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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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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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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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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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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