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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 16, 2026
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623  
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
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Margaret Fairless Barber  
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.
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David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991  
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