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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

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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
Virtue
Beauty
Often
Nature
Come
Culpable
Oversight
Packages
Separate

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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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