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Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
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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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
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If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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