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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
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La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
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The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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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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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
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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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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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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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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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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
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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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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
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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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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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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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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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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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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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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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