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George Santayana on Anniversary

1863–1952 Spain

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

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