Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 07, 2016
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)  
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)  
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764  
When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929  

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