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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. ↗

— 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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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ↗

— George Santayana

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. ↗

— George Santayana

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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ↗

— George Santayana

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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ↗

— George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ↗

— George Santayana

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ↗

— George Santayana

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ↗

— George Santayana

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