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Quote by George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, exis

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

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Imagination
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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. – George Santayana

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Friendship
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Joy is not in things; it is in us. – Richard Wagner

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. – Leon Kass

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Happiness

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. – George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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