The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS
H. G. WELLS
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells 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. WellsH. G. Wells Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells 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.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells
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