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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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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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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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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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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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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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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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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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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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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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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
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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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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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