Author: Will Durant

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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

- Will Durant

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

- Will Durant

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.

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.

- Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

- Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

- Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

- Will Durant

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.

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.

- Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

- Will Durant

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

- Will Durant

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