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NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutnised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complace..
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There's lots will take things as they are--fat and stupid; and lots will be worried by a sort of feeling that it's all wrong, and that they ought to be doing something. Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion,
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before--it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth. On your behalf. . . .
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For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here
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But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it. Determine to alter it at any price, and you can change it altogether. You may change it to something sinister and angry, to something appalling, but it may be you will change it to someth..
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Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a women, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations were mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much child-bearing becomes and evil rather than a blessing to the S..
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Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
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But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?-- KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)
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How often things must have been seen and dismissed as unimportant, before the speculative eye and the moment of vision came! It was Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's court physician, who first puzzled his brains with rubbed amber and bits of glass and silk and shellac, and so began the quickening of the human mind to the existence of this universal presence. And even then the science of electricity remained a mere little group of curious facts for..
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Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasi..
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There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control.
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n 'sw' l'shy lty tkhyf lbshr lfnyn.. hw lkhwf! lkhwf ldhy l Dw lh wl Swt,ldhy l ykhD` llmnTq,wlknh ySm wy`my wysyTr.
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tlk lHjr@ lmZlm@,wlhw l`lyl wlsm lry'`@,whhy Hsny'y bdhr`yh lbDyn,wthwbh l'nyq..wkyf jlsn wtHdthn bklm 'qrb l~ lhms..wkn ntklm hms,lys l'n hnk mn ysm` klmn,wlkn l'nh kn thm@ Sf fy dhhnyn bHyth knt 'fkrn yktnfh b`D lkhwf wmn thm l ttmkn mn 'n t`br `n nfsh bklmt!..wldhlk tklmn bhdw shdyd.
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f'n l 'fhm lmdh l nstTy` lstmt` bmthl hdhh lmt` lbsyT@ `ndm nkbr?wlmdh ytDmn nDwjn nsyn lkthyr mn l'mwr.
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It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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asked Kemp. "Three or four hours--the cat. The bones and sinews and the fat were the last to go, and the tips of the coloured hairs. And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent"
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He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
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n trf lTlq b`yd `n kl mnhm,wlt`ryf lqdym ltqlydy llzwj b'nh lHy@ m` `l~ lsr wlDr l ynsbh 'bd,dh blGt l'mwr dhrwth lm'swy@. n lbny'yn Hyn yGDbwn mn zwjthm,fnhm yrklwnhn Ht~ lmwt,wlnbl ykhwnwn zwjthm,'m byn lmwZfyn lSGr w'SHb lmtjr fqd tfsht fy lwqt lHDr `d@ dhbH zwjthm bl rHm@!
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man -- the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks
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Let's be sure we'd be acting perfectly right in bustin' that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin', but ye can't onbust a door once you've busted en.
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Go to the devil!" said the stranger in a tremendous voice, and "Shut that door after you." So that brief interview terminated."
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They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these unknowns in general. But he was unable to focus his hatred into hating some responsible person or persons in particular. If only he could find who it was had neglected to do something, or had done something wrong or messed about with thin..
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For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then -- nothingness, no visible thing at all!
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Sometimes I doubt if the game is worth the candle. (...) But I know if I abandoned my ambition--hardly as she uses me--I should have nothing but remorse left for the rest of my days.
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Wells recognized that these crude novels correctly foresaw modern warfare as aiming at the massive destruction of the physical structures of an enemy civilization and the terrorizing if not annihilating of its noncombatant population. His Martians anticipate with uncomfortable accuracy, for example, American bombings of Dresden and Tokyo, followed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and boastful proclamations of "shock and awe" tactics against Iraq...
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thm@ qnwn llTby`@,kthyr mnhml ltfkyr fyh hw 'n t`dd wzdhr tqd lmknyt l`qly@ bmthb@ t`wyD `n ltGyyr wlkhTr wlmt`b lty twjh lnsn,n Hywn fy Hl@ tkyf kml m` byy'th hw mjrd al@ l tfkr.fl tlj' lTby`@ l~ ldhk l dh thbt 'n l`d@ wlGryz@ l jdw~ mnhm.lys thm@ dhk Hyth l ywjd 'y tGyyr wl 'y Hj@ l~ ltGyyr. n tlk lHywnt lty l tshrk l jzy'y fy ldhk hy lty `lyh 'n twjh tnw` hy'l fy lHjt wl'khTr.
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It's a beast of a country," said the Voice. "And pigs for people."
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I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket trick, packs of cards that looked all right, and all that sort of thing, but never had I thought of going in until one day, almost without warning, Gip hauled me by my finger right up to the window, and so conducted himself that t..
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But to me the future is still black and blank-is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers -shrivelled 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 man.
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