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Upon Quotes by Will Durant
- 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…
- Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being…
- The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of…
- The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to…
- We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that…
- In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
- Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own…
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