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Quotes from This and That and the Other — Hilaire Belloc

1870–1953 England

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But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.

This and That and the Other (1912)

In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true.

This and That and the Other (1912)

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the very mark of him — that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is for ever marvelling that civilisation should have offended him with priests and soldiers.

This and That and the Other (1912)

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