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

William Ralph Inge

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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Joy is the triumph of life it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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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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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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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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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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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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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 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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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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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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