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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 27, 2024
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Tom Blair  
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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Annie Lennox  
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry, Flight of White Crows  
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  
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