"We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long
stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his
irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed
creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large
and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile."
My favorite Belloc quote, which I've passed along for thirty years.
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I love Belloc.
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