As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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