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Quote by George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – 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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I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. – Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888

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I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. – Benjamin Franklin

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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. – Albert Camus

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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. – Turkish Proverb

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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. – Lydia Maria Child

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