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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 12, 2026
I row after health like a waterman...
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)  
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854  
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel  
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She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
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Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988  
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