America is a young country with an old mentality.

Quote by George Santayana

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is...

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve...

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve...

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and...

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and...

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of...

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.