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" Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. "

George Santayana

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" Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. "

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" The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. "

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" The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. "

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" Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. "

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" Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. "

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" Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. "

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" Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. "

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" Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. "

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" It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. "

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" The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. "

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