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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

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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
Never
Men
Hold
Forever
Wrong

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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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