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From the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most.... Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There's always laughter and good red wine.
At least I've always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!
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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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The tender Evenlode that makes
Her meadows hush to hear the sound
Of waters mingling in the brakes,
And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone,
She lingers in the hills and holds
A hundred little towns of stone,
Forgotten in the western wolds.
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If antiquity be the test of nobility, as many affirm and none deny…then cheese is a very noble thing.
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These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a LITTLE tail behind,
So LARGE a trunk before.
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It is this worth, that is, this ability to get other wealth in exchange, which constitutes true Economic Wealth.
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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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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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Like many of the Upper Class
He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.
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Believing Truth is staring at the sun
Which but destroys the power that could perceive.
So naught of our poor selves can be at one
With burning Truth, nor utterly believe.
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Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.
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The accursed power which stands on Privilege
(And goes with Women, and Champagne and Bridge)
Broke — and Democracy resumed her reign:
(Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
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The Economic definition of Wealth is subtle and diflicult to appreciate, but it is absolutely essential to our study to get it clear at the outset and keep it firmly in mind.
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I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.
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It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
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To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
Wine, true begetter of all arts that be;
Wine, privilege of the completely free;
Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong;
Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong,
Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!
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A smell of burning fills the startled air —
The Electrician is no longer there!
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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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Of this bad world the loveliest and the best Has smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest.
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Hilaire Belloc
Born:
July 27, 1870
Died:
July 16, 1953
(aged 82)
Bio:
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century.
Known for:
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
Great Heresies (1938)
The path to Rome (1902)
The Four Men: a Farrago (1911)
The Servile State (1912)
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