Anne of Green Gables (1908), ch. XVI — verbatim on the proofread first-edition scan page on Wikisource (Anne to Marilla; the line sits in ch. XVI, not the often-assumed ch. 2/24)
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I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.L.M. Montgomery