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William Ralph Inge

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William Ralph Inge (; 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Although as an author he used W. R. Inge, and he was personally known as Ralph, he was widely known by his title as Dean Inge. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

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Quotes from William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

—William Ralph Inge

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

—William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

—William Ralph Inge

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

—William Ralph Inge

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

—William Ralph 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 struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

—William Ralph Inge