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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful… ↗

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I’m going out to collect it… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #life

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? ↗