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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
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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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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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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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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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To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.
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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
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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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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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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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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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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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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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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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