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Hilaire Belloc [1870-1953] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Writer

Children, Christian, Humour

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.

Death, Men, Money, Friendship, God, History, Hope, Life, Smile, Space, Sympathy, Time, Travel

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.	Death, Life, Sympathy	101
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.	Friendship, Men, Space	102
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.	Money, Time	103
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.	Travel	104
The grace of God is courtesy.	God	105
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.	Death	106
Money gives me pleasure all the time.	Money	107
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.	Hope	108
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.	History	109
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.		110
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.		111
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.		112
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.		113
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.		114
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.		115
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.		116
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.	Men	117
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.		118
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.		119
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.		120
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.		121
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.		122
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.		123
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.		124
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the poeple in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.	Smile	125

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