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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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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
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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 shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
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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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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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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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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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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.
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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 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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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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The term Socialism becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.
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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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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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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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