I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; 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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