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George Santayana has 402 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
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The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
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The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
— Booth Tarkington
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A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be…
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
— Will Durant
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and…
— George Santayana
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That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother…
— Diana Quick
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There are 3 faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
— Benjamin Franklin
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