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057eb65	And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.		H. G. Wells
5b6e2fe	Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.		H. G. Wells
8f28d20	They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.		H. G. Wells
02526cf	The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.		H. G. Wells
d3b737c	The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.	noise	H. G. Wells
aa8e5ef	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
0ecf0bd	It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.		H. G. Wells
d4526b1	I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter.		H G Wells
fc85176	In another place was a vast array of idols--Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.	museum time-travel	H. G. Wells
aee3a3a	But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. It is disagreeable for me to recall and write these things, but I set them down that my story may lack nothing. Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know..		H. G. Wells
c754da7	Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most		H G Wells
748e9c3	On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.		H G Wells
c0f76ea	At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.		H. G. Wells
69dc47b	You may kill me, but I can hold you - and all the universe for that matter - in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now		H. G. Wells
90b215b	You teach them very litter?" "Why should we? It only leads to trouble and discontent. We amuse them."	neil-postman	H. G. Wells
2203b52	How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.		H. G. Wells
6f81146	I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.		H. G. Wells
51f75db	Cynicism is humour in ill health.		H. G. Wells
0f95924	The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.		H. G. Wells
9ad9318	He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly.		H. G. Wells
897e855	Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.		H. G. Wells
ff16bea	An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.		H. G. Wells
5176f46	I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.		H. G. Wells
e7b76d9	If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.		H. G. Wells
617f8d7	Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.		H. G. Wells
18afa87	The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow.		H. G. Wells
3c6c947	Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.		H. G. Wells
9fa604d	Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.		H. G. Wells
2c85b3c	Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.		H. G. Wells
ccb4de6	Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.		H. G. Wells
ad4dec8	One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.		H. G. Wells
422b456	For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.		H. G. Wells
df2738d	The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.		H. G. Wells
9fe9afb	Human history is in essence a history of ideas.		H. G. Wells
3cfcd4a	Our true nationality is mankind.		H. G. Wells
21de1a4	Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.		H. G. Wells
cb784e8	Rowena: You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.		H. G. Wells
25a666d	John Cabal: If we don't end war, war will end us.		H. G. Wells

057eb65

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

H. G. Wells

5b6e2fe

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

H. G. Wells

8f28d20

They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.

H. G. Wells

02526cf

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

H. G. Wells

d3b737c

The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.

noise

H. G. Wells

aa8e5ef

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

0ecf0bd

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

H. G. Wells

d4526b1

I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter.

H G Wells

fc85176

In another place was a vast array of idols--Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.

museum time-travel

H. G. Wells

aee3a3a

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. It is disagreeable for me to recall and write these things, but I set them down that my story may lack nothing. Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know..

H. G. Wells

c754da7

Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most

H G Wells

748e9c3

On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.

H G Wells

c0f76ea

At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.