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" All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. "
George Santayana
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" It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. "
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" The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. "
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" To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. "
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" Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. "
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" The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. "
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" That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. "
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