If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant not…

George Santayana
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.90, MIT Press
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