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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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

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This blessed gift of smoking!

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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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

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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

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