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

— George Santayana

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ↗

— George Santayana

#about #dream #dreamer #even #except

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ↗

— George Santayana

#about #events #happened #lies #never

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#interests #soul #voice

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

#adversity #fire #furnace #gold #men

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

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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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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— 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

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