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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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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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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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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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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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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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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True friends are always together in spirit.
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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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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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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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