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Hilaire Belloc Quotes: I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.
         

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.


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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.



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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



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