For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge AgustÃn Nicolás RuÃz de Santayana y Borrás]
Winds of Doctrine (1913)
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