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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

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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Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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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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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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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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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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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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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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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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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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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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