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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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