"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
-William Ralph Inge
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"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.“
-William Ralph Inge
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"The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."
-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."
-William Ralph Inge
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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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"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
-William Ralph Inge
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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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