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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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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
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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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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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