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The grace of God is courtesy.

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
Courtesy
Grace

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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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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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And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
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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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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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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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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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