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Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!

— Hilaire Belloc More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

The Path to Rome (1902)

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.

Verses (1910)

Then he added, as men will who are of infinite imagination and crammed with desires, 'My wants are few.'

The Four Men: A Farrago (1911)

Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)

All teaching is dogmatic. Dogma, indeed, means only "a thing taught," and teaching not dogmatic would cease to be teaching and would become discussion and doubt.

Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)

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