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ImWatson91: Anyone else hear the words "I identify as-" and then immediately zone out? Or hear "my pronouns are-" and just stop paying attention? We don't give a shit, you validation thirsty, attention seeking clowns. You're not that interesting. Your obsession with ID sends me to sleep.

conservmillen: If the left really believed women can become men, they’d be repeating their typical talking points about dangerous white males & toxic masculinity in light of the Nashville shooting. But they know. We all know

m95857: When I am dead I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read.',Hilaire Belloc,writers, writing,

prof_gabriele: JESUS he cites Hilaire Belloc, a vicious white supremacist and antisemite!

JASmius: "According to Hilaire Belloc, Arianism 'became the rallying point for many strongly surviving traditions from the older world: traditions not religious, but intellectual, social, moral, literary and all the rest of it.'”

beginnercathol1: Now reading: The "Amish" by Hilaire Belloc

fraskyfizzle: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

si60747: There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.,Hilaire Belloc,friendship,

JONAHRONO167381: 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,Hilaire Belloc, First and Last,travel,

iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

kisstheblade_: Imagine bringing Hilaire Belloc back to life and making him listen to what "The Distributist" sounds like. Just force Belloc to sit and listen as this American whose accent got distorted by getting too many cocks in his throat all at once attack David French for being too liberal

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contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

howtingmi: "The Free Press is really read and digested. The Official Press is not. Its scream is heard, but it provides no food for the mind.” ~~Hilaire Belloc, The Free Press, 1917 [4/4]

AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

ansAZ14: But these practical considerations of the way in which sham Socialist experiments are working belong rather to my next section, in which I shall deal with the actual beginnings of the Servile State in our midst. Hilaire Belloc (The Servile State)

WingioStore: We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hilaire Belloc Visit

turbarius: The English Catholic Hilaire Belloc described the endurance of Catholicism in Ireland in the face of persecution a 'historical miracle comparable to nothing else in Europe' which is why he had the decency not to take credit for it. Hilaire Belloc, First and Last (London, 1911).

obligateme: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult...

JeremyTate41: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” - Hilaire Belloc

JohnCleese: The funniest single part of the Oxfam guide to the colonial language known as English is the suggestion that using the expression 'to stand with' people you support should be avoided as it 'might potentially alienate people who are not able to stand' More, please !

ProfKarolSikora: Really disappointed to see Oxfam urging staff to avoid using the words 'mother' and 'father'. I honestly had no idea that this nonsense was so widespread. And it is that - total nonsense.

BruleChevalier: OUR LORD AND OUR LADY - By Hilaire Belloc They warned Our Lady for the Child That was Our Blessed Lord, And She took Him into the desert wild, Over the camel's ford. And a long song She sang to Him And a short story told: And She wrapped Him in a woolen cloak

welfordwrites: Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. Hilaire Belloc

JANUARY33215943: A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.,Hilaire Belloc,animals,

tonyfasousa: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

StrangerJosh11: "Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged." Hilaire Belloc

iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

TheBurkeanIE: "Ireland is a nation risen from the dead; and to raise one man from the dead is surely miraculous enough to convince one of the power of a great spirit."

contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

NewYorkSun: Hilaire Belloc’s tale, "George, Who Played With a Dangerous Toy," is among his clever inversions of a particular Victorian genre of texts given to children.

WestVanCork: “I FORGET THE NAME OF THE PLACE; I FORGET THE NAME OF THE GIRL; BUT THE WINE WAS CHAMBERTIN.” – HILAIRE BELLOC | Quench Magazine

howtingmi: “No man who has the truth to tell and the power to tell it can long remain hiding it from fear or even from despair without ignominy. To release the truth against whatever odds, even if doing so can no longer help the Commonwealth, is a necessity for the soul.” ~~Hilaire Belloc

AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

marcpage: The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. - Hilaire Belloc

Delta_Cephei: Then Hillaire Belloc (of cautionary tales): According to Poetry Foundation¹, Hilaire Belloc was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. He was an outspoken proponent of radical social and economic reforms, all grounded in his vision of Europe as a…

panickssery: "There are three men in existence who have such an attitude: Tolstoy, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and my friend Mr. Hilaire Belloc. They are all diametrically opposed to each other, but they all have this essential resemblance, that, given their basis of thought, their soil of conviction"

michaeljknowles: Hilaire Belloc sums up my view: "The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine, but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight."

contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

fraskyfizzle: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

LoroneToby: I'm leading a double life. I'm at uni writing an essay on climate justice and it's intersection with 'indigenous groups' and I'm going home soon to read my new Hilaire Belloc

KuriaMutura: "Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death" (Hilaire Belloc)

TauAhmed23: “There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodleian.” – Hilaire Belloc

wdSBBHWPL36GaaI: Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. Hilaire Belloc

SachinK1606: Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. -Hilaire Belloc

michaeljknowles: "The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine, but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight." —Hilaire Belloc

AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

k66517110: There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.,Hilaire Belloc,friends,

iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

BldgCatholicMen: “The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine, but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.” ~ Hilaire Belloc

JurgenSchulz: It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. – Hilaire Belloc

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macromonetarist: "The birth year of what may be called " indiscriminate usury" is 1609, when, under Calvinism, the Bank of Amsterdam started its great career of stimulating fortunate capacity and ruining the unfortunate." ~ Hilaire Belloc

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

lovecrypt: Hilaire Belloc, c. 1903

contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

BjornLomborg: Quite astounding: Sweden took a lot of flack for its Covid19 policies But actually, Sweden has done best in Europe over 2020-22 measuring excess mortality in percent of total mortality

welfordwrites: Matilda Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death, a poem by Hilaire Belloc. A highly entertaining version of the “boy who cried wolf” theme, in mock-heroic.

CruiseSmart: “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc.

AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

ArthurRichardH: Who knew the main sources of Catholic doctrine pre Vatican II were the New Advent encyclopedia and Hilaire Belloc

iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

gnilwoce: “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” ― Hilaire Belloc

war_poets: 27 February 1917 Robert Vernede writes ‘Who do you think came into my dug-out at dead of night and chatted for an hour? Hilaire Belloc – not the one, but his son, a very taking youth of about 18, most intelligent, in the R.E.s. He’d come up to site a trench'

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

abzeronow: 58. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) also had a 1928 travel book titled Many Cities which was about his travels to Spain, Portugal, France and the Rhineland in Germany. It's available at The Internet Archive.

abzeronow: 57. British writer Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) had a 1928 book titled James the Second. It was about James II of England. Book is available at The Internet Archive.

DurhamWASP: Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. Hilaire Belloc Belloc by Herbert James Gunn

contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

asliverarrow: Primitive microbes evolved on Earth approximately three billion years ago but were isolated by humans only in the late 19th century, around twenty years before Hilaire Belloc

AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

mehil: Twitter is a mess but with chaos comes opportunity: there's never been a better time to launch a gimmick account that goes completely off the rails. I'm thinking like a Hilaire Belloc impersonator that gets really into complaining that the woke mob has come for Pringles.

ordinarytimemag: Ben Sears: POETS Day! Hilaire Belloc

oatney76: In the present situation within the Church today, I find that I periodically need to be reminded of this truth, so eloquently expressed by the great Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc...

JurgenSchulz: If I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand, I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work, it will be morning. – Hilaire Belloc

secondachilles: Belloc: A man of many talents

sairasameerarao: If you are a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. If you are married to/in a relationship with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. If you are friends with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. At some point, your actions need to match your memes. It’s a low bar.

JohnChivall: Interesting that Mic mentions Hilaire Belloc as I've literally cut entire pages out of a Belloc book before letting my kids see it.

ardentsaviorops: Hilaire Belloc wrote, When Im dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were this 8286ac0e4777ecc2

iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

RitaPanahi: Apart from that they’re great!

worthwhilebooks: On this day in 1885, Mark Twain published his masterpiece “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” It is the Great American Novel.

TheFamousArtBR: I couldn’t think of anything more offensive & absurd than rewriting popular books to sanitise them to meet the insane religious standards of woque ideology. Makes sense that the only way for these lunatics to be “on the right side of history” is to rewrite history, art & culture.

EndWokeness: We have to call them by their preferred pronouns and identities But they can call us “cisgender” even though none of us agreed to it? We prefer “normal person”

stillgray: Seems like a completely mentally healthy and well-balanced person.

gralefrit: Proposal: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, after the gates open, to continue to be a book about a boy called Charlie going to a Chocolate Factory, rather than an anthology of Hilaire Belloc poems. Also: add David Seltzer’s uncredited story rewrite from the film.

DealsOnProducts: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

Errata4clarity: perfect for todays' politicians “Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.” ― Hilaire Belloc

wikipediachain: Earl Hutchinson > Labour candidates and parties in Canada > Conservative Labour > Motion of confidence > Acharya Kripalani > Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty > Indian nationalism > Swami Vivekananda > Hindu Yuva Vahini > Hindutva > John Henry Newman > Hilaire Belloc > Socialism > OGAS

coachrobwood: Male Rites of Passage have essentially died in the West (and it’s costing us dearly) Our world is filled with un-initiated and unfinished men It’s time to rekindle the fires of initiation for our boys and reestablish a more promising future for all.

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KidinaSandbox: "One doesn't have to be intelligent to make lots of money, one just needs to think about it twenty-four hours a day." - Hilaire Belloc

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MaryWerblin: Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɪˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/, French: [ilɛːʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870[1] – 16 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activ

DianaMi14716631: “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” –Hilaire Belloc

stillgray: Eating regular meals is racist.

seerutkchawla: I swear to God most of these ‘anti-woke’ positions were just basic common sense 5 years ago.

contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire_Belloc: Always the condescending talk, like they're speaking to children. Whose mind does this change?



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