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William Ralph Inge

William Ralph Inge KCVO (/ˈɪŋ/; 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Action, Faculty, Nature, Takes, Used

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Life, Maybe, Reflection, Theater, Theatre

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

Different, Remains, Resolutions, Sheep, Useless, Vegetarianism

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Animal, Cat, Human, Humanity, Pleased, Said

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Begins, Ends, Experience, Experiment, Experiments, Faith

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Bayonets, Man, Peace, Sit, Trust, War

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Believe, God, Men, Nature, People

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Fear, Originality, Plagiarism, Unconscious

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Interesting, Life, Peace, Suicide, War

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Originality, Plagiarism, Undetected

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Creativity, Funny, Originality, Plagiarism, Undetected

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Age, Marries, Next, Society, Widower

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

Aspirations, Country, Limit, Military, Noble

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Bored, Happiness, Happy, Nothing, People, Producing

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Battle, Disheartened, Judging, Let, Soldier

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Barbarians, Disease, Gambling, Superficially

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Honesty, Let, Policy, Supposing That

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Down, Like, Name, Names, Running, World

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

Except, Happiness, Happy, Particular, Success

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Hatred, Nation, Patriotism, Politics, Society

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