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The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

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The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

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About William Ralph Inge

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.