October 18, 2005

Belloc

Belloc once observed that "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."
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  1. Matthew Piette5:39 PM

    I believe that is was Hillaire Belloc who wrote:
    "Whatever happens, we have got
    The Maxim gun, and they have not."

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