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Quotes from Persons and Places — George Santayana

1863–1952 Spain

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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

Persons and Places (1944)

In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war.

Persons and Places (1944)

... I once shook hands with Longfellow at a garden party in 1881; and I often saw Dr. Holmes, who was our neighbor in Beacon Street: but Emerson I never saw.

Persons and Places (1944)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Santayana (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.