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• Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952), The Sense of Beauty (1896) "The Comic...
• It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. -- George Santayana
• Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in it's subject.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952)...
• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the later only as a veteran may differ from a raw recrui
  and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club....
• The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905-1906)...
• We must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952), "Soliloquies In England...
• Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
• Nothing can stop him. Not even common sense. -- Mark Komarinski