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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 9, 2026
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey  
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764  
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
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Marlo Thomas  
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