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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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