The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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