H. G. Wells Short Quotes

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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The eye of faith is no better than the eye of science.

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He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

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'Sesquippledan,' he would say. 'Sesquippledan verboojuice.'

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It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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Facts are the raw materials and not the substance of science.

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We English are everlasting children in an everlasting nursery.

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Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.

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Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

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No man can be a good teacher when his subject becomes inexplicable.

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Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.

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So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly.

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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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"It's against reason?" said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveler.

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Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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The movement of the last hundred years is all in favor of the statistician.

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