"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
-Hilaire Belloc
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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.“
-Hilaire Belloc
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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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"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
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"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."
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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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"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
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