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

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Legacy
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Hilaire Belloc
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Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch ones eyes;
Her aunt, who from her earliest youth,
Had kept a strict regard for truth,
Attempted to believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her. – Hilaire Belloc

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Deception/Lying
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Hilaire Belloc
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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb

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Books

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by. – Bulstrode Whitlock

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