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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

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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
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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