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George Santayana, originally named Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, was born this day in Madrid, Spain, in 1863. Best known for his famous quotation “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher and author who wrote in English and who had been raised and educated in the United States of America.

One of these days, I intend to make it all the way through his novel The Last Puritan even though I find it hard to imagine a storyline that can do that title justice.