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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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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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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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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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But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
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Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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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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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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