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William Ralph Inge Quotations

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The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
What is originality Undetected plagiarism.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
English author & Anglican prelate
1860 - 1954
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge - Outspoken Essays (1919)
English author & Anglican prelate
1860 - 1954
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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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