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

William Ralph Inge

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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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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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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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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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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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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 effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
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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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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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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.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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