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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Ralph Inge

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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