Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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