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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - September 05, 2016
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712  
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
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Denise Levertov  
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943  
I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908  
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