Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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