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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Hilaire Belloc

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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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Perpetually
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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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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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Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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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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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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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
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But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.
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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
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We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
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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 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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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
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I forget the name of the place I forget the name of the girl but the wine was Chambertin.
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There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
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It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.
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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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