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Almost Quotes by George Santayana
- Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
- Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has…
- It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our…
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
- A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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