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“There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.” quote by Hilaire Belloc — Download Open image

“There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.”

Hilaire Belloc

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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

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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.

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Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now…

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It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that…

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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. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth…

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The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,…

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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…

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Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different…

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