To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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