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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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