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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
Historian
Journalist
Poet
Politician
Writer
La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.
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The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
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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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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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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 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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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
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I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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That I grow sour, who only lack delight That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height That with my blame my mockery you receive Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.
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Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
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Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
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