To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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