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“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to’t” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Man dies, but glory lives!” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Don’t let the Muggles get you down!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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