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George Santayana1863–1952

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana on happiness

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

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