Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, …

George Santayana
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations ✨ George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States, p.143, Yale University Press
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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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