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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Liberty
Wisdom
Understanding
Knowledge
Power

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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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