To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission 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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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