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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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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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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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