You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but …

George Santayana
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You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.471, 谷月社
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You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.471, 谷月社

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