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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
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For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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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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Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
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I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
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I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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To love is easy and therefore common — but to understand — how rare it is!
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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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I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
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Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
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When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper...and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
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Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
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Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
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Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
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Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.
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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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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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Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!
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It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.
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Doctor Dave hasn't much tact, to be sure — he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself.
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Born:
November 30, 1874
Died:
April 24, 1942
(aged 67)
Bio:
L.M. Montgomery was the pen name of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success.
Known for:
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
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