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Hilaire Belloc Quotes: Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
         

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.


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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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