Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
Hilaire BellocWhen people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
Hilaire BellocThe gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
Hilaire BellocSlowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.
Hilaire Belloc