"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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Source : Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.2675, Delphi Classics

Hilaire Belloc

#Men Quotes #Advantage Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.”

Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.34, John Wiley and Sons
“Egotism is the tongue of vanity.”
“What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.”
“I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.”
“The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.”
“The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.”

Source : Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

Source : "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LIV, 2016.
“It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.”

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