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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 02, 2017

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818

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