A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve My dear, we live in an age of transition.Dean Inge
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge
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 struggle. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too.
Dean Inge
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Dean Inge
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Dean Inge
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
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