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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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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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