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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 16, 2016
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
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Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688  
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
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Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)  
A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.
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Ken Doherty  
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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Junot Diaz, O Magazine, November 2009  
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