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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
Historian
Journalist
Poet
Politician
Writer
La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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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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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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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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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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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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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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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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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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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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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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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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Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.
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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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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
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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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