"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."

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Source : Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

Hilaire Belloc

#Ridiculous Quotes #Politician Quotes #Acquaintance Quotes

“All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.”
“While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.”
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag
“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
“Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.”
“I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The simplest answer is to act.”

Source : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.
“Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.”

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