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H. G. Wells Quotes

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 to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

Biography

Author Profession: Author
Nationality: English
Born: September 21, 1866
Died: August 13, 1946

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If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells

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