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 traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

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Travel
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Im tired of love Im still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time. – Hilaire Belloc

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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God – Eberhard Arnold

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War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Lets hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply wont buy. – Simon Mainwaring

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To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself. – Emile M. Cioran

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. – Michel de Montaigne

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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