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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery