When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire Belloc
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- Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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- 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.
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