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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942)
Canadian novelist [more author details]
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
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L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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L. M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

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