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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: November 5th, 1885

Died: November 7th, 1981

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