Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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