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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - September 2, 2026
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
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Joanna Field  
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)  
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
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Charles Spencer  
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818  
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