Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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