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Hilaire Belloc

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

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Of this bad world the loveliest and the best
Has smiled and said “Good Night,” and gone to rest.

Hilaire Belloc

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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

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

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The chief defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of string.

Hilaire Belloc

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