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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
Explore more quotes by Will Durant
"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."
"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away."
"So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."
"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
"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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