History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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