Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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