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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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