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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 17, 2026

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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To play it safe is not to play.: Robert Altman (1925 - 2007)

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