As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where dept…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ✨ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Francis W. P. Bolger, Elizabeth R. Epperly (1992). My dear Mr. M.: letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery, Oxford University Press, 1992
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