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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#happiness #knowledge #possible

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ↗

— George Santayana

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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ↗

— George Santayana

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. ↗

— George Santayana

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

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