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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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The happy people are those who are producing something the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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