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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

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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
Arise
Explain
Done
Things
Men
Wherever

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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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