When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world … - Hilaire Belloc

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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Hilaire Belloc

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Air, Being Alone, Loneliness, Men, Open, Planets

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The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

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In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

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How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

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Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Funny Valentine, Giving, Money, Pleasure, Silly Love, Time

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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

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Christopher Hitchens

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

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Thomas Jefferson

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

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Alex Kendrick

When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.

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Thomas Malthus

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

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