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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
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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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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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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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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