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.

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

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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

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It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

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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.

—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.

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