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Hilaire Belloc Quotes: The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
         

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.


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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!



The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.



When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.



When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.



The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.



We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.





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It matters not which partner is bringing negativity into conversations and exchanges. Toxicity has no place at all between people who have promised to love each other.



If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.



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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.



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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.



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Our Gospel is a Gospel of blood; blood is the foundation; without it there is nothing.



I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

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