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WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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