English - Author | September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
BeginningPast
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
ManWorldChanceEndYouWill
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
BestPoliticsFaceEnoughPlayWay
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
FailureCommunityEndMeasureBad
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.
PerceptionSeriousDoneComfortable
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
MenPayOwnWhoGambleShould
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
KnowledgeNothingWithoutStraight
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
GreatPeopleMeaningBe TrueTrue
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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