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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
Historian
Journalist
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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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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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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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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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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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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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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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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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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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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Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.
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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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I said to Heart, How goes it? Heart replied: Right as a Ribstone Pippin! But it lied.
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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 grace of God is courtesy.
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