Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory,…

George Santayana
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Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One, p.174, MIT Press
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