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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Again Become Cecome Every Hatred Just Only Respectable Vice Virtue Wartime
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Always Begin Broke Custom Every Minority One Originate Precedent Truth
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Best Century Event Inform Last Sixty
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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