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Famous Quotes By H. G. Wells

Famous quotes by the English author, H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells). He was born on September 21, 1866 at Bromley in Kent, England. Some of his most famous books were 'The Time Machine' (1895), 'The Invisible Man' (1897), 'The War of the Worlds' (1898) and 'First Men in the Moon' (1901). He died on August 13, 1946.

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In England we have come to rely on a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century invervening between the perception that something ought to be done a serious attempt to do it.

Moral Indignation is jealousy with a halo.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Advertising is legalized lying

We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.

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