| 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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- William Ralph Inge |
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| Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. |
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- William Ralph Inge |
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| The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. |
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- 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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- William Ralph Inge |
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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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- William Ralph Inge |
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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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- William Ralph Inge |
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| On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. |
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- William Ralph Inge |
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| Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. |
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- William Ralph Inge |
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| The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people. |
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- William Ralph Inge |
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| I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. |
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- William Ralph Inge |
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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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- William Ralph Inge |
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