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George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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George Santayana is saying that wealth, religion, and military success often serve more to persuade or impress people than to produce real, effective results. In other words, their value lies more in how they are talked about or presented than in their actual power or usefulness.

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