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I'm going out after supper to walk all over the old orchard by moonlight. I suppose I'll have to go to bed finally... though I've always thought sleeping on moonlight nights a waste of time...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Ingleside (1939)

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Her confusion put him at ease and he forgot to be shy; besides, even the shyest of men can sometimes be quite audacious in moonlight.

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What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!

Anne of the Island (1915)

Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

Anne of the Island (1915)

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.

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