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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 16, 2025
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  
Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
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George McDonald  
We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?
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John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005  
If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
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John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005  
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