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Himself Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
- Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
- Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
- A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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