A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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