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• The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Would Be, Needs, Restoration

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• But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

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  Humorous, Doubt, Scientist

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

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  Self, Lasts, England

  Hilaire Belloc (1955). “Essays”

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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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  Girl, Food, Wine

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• But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

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  Morning, Hands, Looks

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• In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

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  Lying, Night, Shadow

  Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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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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  Science, Objectivity, Victory

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 173)

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• It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

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  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 170)

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• Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Benefits, Slavery

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• The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

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  Wisdom, Rising, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.85, TAN Books

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

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  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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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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  Latin, Soul, Tea

  On Nothing (1908) "On Tea"

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• Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

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  Men, Care, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.25, IHS Press

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• Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

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  Character, Our Society, Ownership

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.23, IHS Press

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• The grace of God is courtesy.

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  Grace, Courtesy, Grace Of God

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• The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

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  Wisdom, Men, Mind

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.32, IHS Press

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• The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

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  Wisdom, Strong, Class

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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• In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

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  Wisdom, Men, Doctrine

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• [A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

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  Nurse, Findings

  'Cautionary Tales' (1907) 'Jim'

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

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  Stupid, Men, Years

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• Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

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  Dry Up, Relief, Levels

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• But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.

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  Wisdom, Men, Hands

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.96, TAN Books

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• The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

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  Lying, Men, Moments

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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