Quote by Hilaire Belloc
Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pl

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. – Hilaire Belloc

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To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty. – Hilaire Belloc

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. – Hilaire Belloc

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But a book is never just a book. – The Old Sage Bookshop in Prescott, Arizona

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! – J.N. Larned

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If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Author unknown

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Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. – Author Unknown

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The ugly is in poetry only a passing shadow. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Ive always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. – Malcolm Mclaren

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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. – Gerald R. Ford

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