History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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 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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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