"We can't have any weak or silly. Life……" — H.G. Wells
"We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race."
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294 Quotes by H.G. Wells
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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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