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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɪˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/; French: [ilɛʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902, while retaining his French citizenship.

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If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing. . . The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Cooking, Food, Lineage, Nobility, Noble, Thing

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Book, Crusades, Dull, Writing

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

Advantage, Feeds, Mankind, Meets, Men, Travel

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Beads, Catholic, Day, Rosary, Thank God

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Microbe, Sanguine, Science, Scientist, Small, Take

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

Boring, Interesting, Made, Subject

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Funny, Head, Humorous, Lie, Lying, Under

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Character, Contrary, Our Society, Ownership, Precarious, Society

The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

Alone, Ground, Heart, Rivers, Water, Wolds

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

Generations, Habit, Kept, Names, Order, Rely Upon

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Second Best, Sing, Singing, Song, Songs, Trades

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Love, Money, Rhyme, Tired

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Advantage, Dry Up, Littles, Lower, Lowest, Pay

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

Catholic, Church, Divine, Facts, Hold

The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting. " He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

Men, Issues, Interesting, Richer, Pretty, Difficulty

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking. . . Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

Insult, Men, Original, Thinking, Trick, Years

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.

Done, Funny, Make, Time, Watch, Watches

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.

Believe, Contemn, Diana, Grieving, Grow, Night

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

Bore, Giving, Grandma, Happy, Years

The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices. . . The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled; They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.

Assembled, Features, Harassed, Mean, People, Voice

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