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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. ↗

— George Santayana

#friends #human #human race #part #race

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ↗

— George Santayana

#art #bands #etc #football #good

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ↗

— George Santayana

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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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 possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— 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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