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Oaths are the fossils of piety. - George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana

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best
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. – German Proverb

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. – Gertrude Stein

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, thats good taste. – Lucille Ball

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