The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a t…

George Santayana
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed. ✨ The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two.
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