It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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