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Opposites Quotes by George Santayana
- 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…
- To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will…
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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