Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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