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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.

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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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