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Hilaire Belloc Quotes: How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
         

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!


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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.



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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



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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.





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