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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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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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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
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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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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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I said to Heart, How goes it? Heart replied: Right as a Ribstone Pippin! But it lied.
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The grace of God is courtesy.
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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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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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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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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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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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The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.
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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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