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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream contr

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. – 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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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. – Author Unknown

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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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