Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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