I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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