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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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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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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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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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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 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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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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