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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 26, 2023

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), The Compleat Angler, 1653
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

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