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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

William Ralph Inge

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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
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The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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