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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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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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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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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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