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  • Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

    George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press