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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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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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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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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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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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