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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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... we always love best the people who need us.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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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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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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