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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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Prince Edward Island
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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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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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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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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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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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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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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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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