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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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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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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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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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