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Own Quotes by H.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…
- It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
- No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater…
- With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
- Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
- 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…
- Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow…
- I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
- A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
- For it is just this question of pain that parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your…
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