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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

George Santayana (1863–1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. "Reason in Society," ch. 2, The Life of Reason (1905-1906, revised 1953).

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