We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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