Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new a…

George Santayana
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. ✨ George Santayana (1937). The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. ✨ George Santayana (1937). The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

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