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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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