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Quotation by George Santayana
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Character and Opinion in the United States Doubleday Anchor (1956)Character and Opinion in the United States Scribner (1920)"Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics" Random House (1962)Dialogues in Limbo (1925)"Dickens" Soliloquies in England (1922)Related Subjects
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish-born U.S. philosopher, poet. The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, pt. 1, ch. 10, Scribner (1906).
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