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Book Quotes by Hilaire Belloc
- When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
- For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.…
- Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
- I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
- Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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