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Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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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…
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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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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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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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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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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us…
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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…
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
— Tommy Lasorda
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
— Bertrand Russell
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If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.
— Julius Erving
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People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be…
— Florence Griffith Joyner
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Why be second best at anything?
— Paul Heyman
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They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
— Kevin Keegan
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What I look for is a man who can be a friend, someone who is an equal and one with whom I…
— Jennifer Aniston
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No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
— Michael Jackson
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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
— Edward Abbey
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For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global…
— Meg Whitman
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