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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. – 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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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. – Hilaire Belloc

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. – Nora Ephron

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. – Proverb

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. – Howard Nemerov

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 19

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