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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 31, 2026
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008  
Can I ever know you Or you know me?
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Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)  
Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
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David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004  
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)  

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