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William Ralph Inge
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Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
William Ralph Inge
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
William Ralph Inge
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Ralph Inge
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
William Ralph Inge
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
William Ralph Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
William Ralph Inge
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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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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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William Ralph Inge
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
William Ralph Inge
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
William Ralph Inge
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
William Ralph Inge
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
William Ralph Inge
