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Turns Quotes by George Santayana
- It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
- Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance…
- . . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished…
- If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
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