I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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