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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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 read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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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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...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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