On Anything

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Essays

Authors: Hilaire Belloc In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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On Building Castles in Spain
On Clay
On No Book
On Irony
On the Simplicity of Words
On Secluded Places
On People in Books
On the Effect of Time
On a Poet
On a Prophet
On Believing
On the Air of the Dordogne
On the Sites of the Revolution
On a Secret Letter
On the Shadows
On the Canvasser
On the Abstracted Man
On the Method of History
On History in Travel
On the Traveller
On Milton
On Hans Christian Anderson
On the Christmas of 1808
On Communications
On Astarte
On the Hungry Student
On the Brigand of Radicofani
On the Honest Man and the Devil
On Compiegne
On the Candour of Maturity
On the Fog
On the Spaniard
On the Fortress
On the Hunter
On Our Inheritance
On the New Road
On Two Towns
On the Judgment of Robspierre

Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of great wealth, to whom I was describing what I intended to do with life (which in those days seemed to me of infinite duration), said to me, "You are building castles in Spain." I was too much in awe of this woman not on account of the wealth, but on account of the crust to go further into the matter, but it seemed to me a very foolish thing to say, for I had never been to Spain, and I had nothing wherewith to build a castle and indeed such a project had never passed through my head. -- Hilaire Belloc