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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
Historian
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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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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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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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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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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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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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 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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We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
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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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The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
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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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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
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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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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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