There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
-- William Ralph Inge
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
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
-- William Ralph Inge
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
-- William Ralph Inge
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.
-- William Ralph Inge
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