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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

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

— Dean Inge

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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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