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I am simply a book drunkard.
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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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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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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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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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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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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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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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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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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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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