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“Le contrôle de la production des richesses est le contrôle de la vie humaine elle-même.”

[…], to control the production of wealth is to control human life itself.
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“The Science of Economics does not deal with true happiness nor even with well-being in material things. It deals with a strictly limited field of what is called "Economic Wealth," and if it goes outside its own boundaries it goes wrong.”

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Source: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?

“Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!”

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"The Microbe"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

“Oh, my friends, be warned by me,
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and Tea
Are all the Human Frame requires.”

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Hilaire Belloc livre Cautionary Tales for Children

"Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

“Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.”

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"On Tea", On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908)

“[P]rofessional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.”

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Source: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 116

“[M]others of large families (who claim to common sense)
Will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.”

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Hilaire Belloc livre The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

"The Tiger"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)

“Man may […] be master of his fate, but he has a precious poor servant. It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.”

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Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. 299

“… and as to what may be in this book, do not feel timid nor hesitate to enter. There are more mountains than molehills …”

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caption to the frontispiece, p. ii
The Path to Rome (1902)

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

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Hilaire Belloc livre Cautionary Tales for Children

"Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

“Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes;
Her Aunt, who from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
Attempted to Believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her.”

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"Matilda, Who Told Lies, and Was Burned to Death"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

“Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”

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IV. On Making an Omelette
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)

“Of courtesy it is much less
Than courage of heart or holiness
Yet in my walks it seems to me
That the Grace of God is in courtesy.”

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"Courtesy"
Verses (1910)

“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.”

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"Dedicatory Ode", stanzas 31–32
Verses (1910)

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

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Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 27

“Wealth, for the purposes of economic study, is confined to those values attaching to material objects through the action of man, which values can be exchanged /or other values.”

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Source: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?

“Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”

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"Epitaph on the Politician Himself"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)

“It is a consolation to remember that corruption pushed beyond a certain point provides its own remedy, and that this sort of thing cannot indefinitely continue; but it is less consoling to remember another truth, to wit, that the correction of political and social evil may come in the form of irremediable catastrophe, and that the innocent, who are the greater number, would then suffer most. It is still less consoling to remember the universal human experience that when evil is redressed by the only partly conscious force of reaction, it is not succeeded by a corresponding good, but by some other new and unexpected evil.”

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Source: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), pp. 248–9

“It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.”

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Source: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 177

“I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.”

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Hilaire Belloc livre The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

"The Hippopotamus"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)

“So touch my dying lip: so bridge that deep:
So pledge my waking from the gift of sleep,
And, sacramental, raise me the Divine:
Strong brother in God and last companion, Wine.”

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Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)

“How did the party go in Portman Square?
I cannot tell you; Juliet was not there.
And how did Lady Gaster's party go?
Juliet was next me and I do not know.”

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"Juliet", Sonnets and Verse (1954)

“May all good fellows that here agree
Drink Audit Ale in heaven with me,
And may all my enemies go to hell!
Noël! Noël! Noël! Noël!
May all my enemies go to hell!
Noël! Noël!”

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drinking song, p. 126
The Four Men: A Farrago (1911)

“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”

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Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 355

“The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.”

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Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument

“How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past,
How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!”

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"On the Same" (On a Sundial II)
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.”

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"Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child"
Verses (1910)

“Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.”

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Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument

“The Big Baboon is found upon
The plains of Cariboo:
He goes about with nothing on
(A shocking thing to do).
But if he dressed respectably
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would be
To Mister So-and-so!”

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Hilaire Belloc livre The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

"The Big Baboon"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)

“For the line of cleavage does not fall between the various groups, Catholic, Agnostic, Evangelical, or what not, but between the Catholic Church and all else. She is unique, and at issue with the world.”

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Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (ii) Anti-Clericalism

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”

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"On Statistics"
The Silence of the Sea (1940)

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