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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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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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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No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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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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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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