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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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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
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The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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I write to cover a frame of ideas.
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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
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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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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.
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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?
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Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Strength is the outcome of need.
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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
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