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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
Historian
Idist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells
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Nothing
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
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A young mistress is better than an old master.
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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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For after the Battle comes quiet.
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.
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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
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The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the Lady Vain.
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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