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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc
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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
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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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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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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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If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
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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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And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
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There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope of painting a surface of wood of mixing mortar of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.
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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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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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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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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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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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Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.
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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
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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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