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«The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
legs, plays, uglier
«Human history in essence is the history of ideas.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
history of ideas, Human history, in essence, The History of
«Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
halo, indignation
«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.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
England, intervene, intervening, lag, lagged, lagging, lags, perception, rely, time lag
«Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
ashes, choke, lit, vanish
«Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, Human history, more and more
«Cynicism is humor in ill health.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
cynicism, ill health, ill humor
«The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.»
«A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
dissension, dock, docked, docks, gamble, homicide, homicides, International, noose, nooses, promoted, Reasonable man, stake, surer, willfully
«The past is but the past of a beginning.»
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