By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man…

George Santayana
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ✨ George Santayana (2011). The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, p.86, MIT Press
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