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William Ralph Inge Quote

“Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.”

— William Ralph Inge

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

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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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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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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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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

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