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L. M. Montgomery

"Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books."

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"Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books."

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

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"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

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"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

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"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

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"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

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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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"Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry."
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"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
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"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."
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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
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"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
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"I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism."
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"Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows."
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