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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
H. G. Wells
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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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Bromley
London
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Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
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We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
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