For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterward…

George Santayana
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned ✨ 1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned ✨ 1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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