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... we always love best the people who need us.
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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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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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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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