Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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