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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- Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
- Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
- The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
- True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
- The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.