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"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized."

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MORE QUOTES BY Will Durant

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”

Will Durant

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“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos”

“The future never just happened. It was created”

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“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”