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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - February 13, 2026
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)  
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977  
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858  
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)  
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