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Quote by George Santayana
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, n

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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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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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observers own weaknesses reflected back from others. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann

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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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I think its wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them. – Rex Hunt

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