I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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