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" To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. "

George Santayana

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" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

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" Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. "

" In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. "

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