I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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