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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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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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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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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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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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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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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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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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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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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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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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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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