George Santayana

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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Philosophy
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Wisdom
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."	Philosophy
"There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books."	Wisdom
"Art is delayed echo."	Art
"Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."	Art
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."	Fear
"My atheism is true to the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their image, to be servants of their human interests."	Fear
"Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself."	Wisdom
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."	Art
"Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions."	Love, Conformity
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."	Education
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."	Family
"Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman."	Economics, History
"Memory itself is an internal rumour."	Memory
"Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts."	Miscellaneous
"Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts."	Quotations
"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."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Quotations
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."	Patriotism
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