Example has more followers than reason.Christian Bovee
“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.”
“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.”
— WILLIAM R. INGE
English clergyman and author · 1860 – 1954
William Ralph Inge was an English Anglican priest, professor and author who served as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Nicknamed 'the Gloomy Dean' for his pessimistic newspaper columns, he wrote widely on mysticism and Plotinus.
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