History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.George Santayana
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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