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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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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 would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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