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Fun Is A Good Thing But Only When It Spoils Nothing Better.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952), The Sense of Beauty (1896) "The Comic"
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
-- George Santayana...
Sanity is a madness put to good use. -- George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
A thing of custom,--'t is no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous.
-- George Santayana...
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
-- George Santayana...
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in it's subject.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952)...
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -- George Santayana