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Quote by Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. – Hilaire Belloc

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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 distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

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Travel
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Hilaire Belloc
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I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten em. – Hilaire Belloc

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Hunting
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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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I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. – Sonia Sotomayor

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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. – William Ralph Inge

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. – Lillian Hellman

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. – Manuel Puig

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx

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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. – Julius Erving

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respect

Im perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and its all women. I always think its kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching. – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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