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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

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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
Rejoice
Library
Mankind
Read
Wells
Well
Think
Thinking
Libraries

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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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