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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

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
Conflict
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Least
Men
Instinct

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If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.
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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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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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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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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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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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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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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
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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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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
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I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.
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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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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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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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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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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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