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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

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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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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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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One real world is enough.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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