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> [The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-passion-for-playing-chess-is-one-of-the-most-unaccountable-in-the/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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> [The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-passion-for-playing-chess-is-one-of-the-most-unaccountable-in-the-2/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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## More by H. G. Wells

> [... life falls into place only with God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/life-falls-into-place-only-with-god/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/fools-make-researches-and-wise-men-exploit-them-that-is-our-earthly/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-true-sweetness-of-chess-if-it-ever-can-be-sweet-is-to-see-a/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-priest-is-a-man-vowed-trained-and-consecrated-a-man-belonging-to-a/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-man-who-raises-a-fist-has-run-out-of-ideas/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-choice-is-the-universe-or-nothing/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [ The crisis \[the Great Depression\] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-crisis-the-great-depression-discovered-a-great-man-in-franklin/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/non-violence-is-the-policy-of-the-vegetable-kingdom/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/for-all-my-desire-to-be-interesting-i-have-to-confess-that-for-most/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-jews-looked-for-a-special-savior-a-messiah-who-was-to-redeem/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/and-i-have-by-me-for-my-comfort-two-strange-white-flowers-shrivelled/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [ \[A novel by Henry James\] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church-lit-but-without-a/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/in-england-we-have-come-to-rely-upon-a-comfortable-time-lag-of-fifty/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [We must end war before war ends us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/we-must-end-war-before-war-ends-us/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

> [What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-under-calamity/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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