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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 01, 2024
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915  
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975  
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)  
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995  
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