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Institutions Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
- The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
- But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that…
- Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
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