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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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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 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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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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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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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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