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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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