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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.
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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
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And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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I said to Heart, How goes it? Heart replied: Right as a Ribstone Pippin! But it lied.
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The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
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The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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The term Socialism becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery there is no third course.
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I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.
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Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
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The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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