A Quote by George Santayana
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
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Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.
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