Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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 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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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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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