I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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