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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of the Island (1915)

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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!

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

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

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

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