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

William Ralph Inge

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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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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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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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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 tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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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.
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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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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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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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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
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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.
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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