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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

— George Santayana The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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To covet truth is a very distinguished passion.

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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

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