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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.

Hilaire Belloc

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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
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Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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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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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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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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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 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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How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
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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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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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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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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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There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
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