The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. (Ashley Montagu)

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Ashley Montagu

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