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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

H. G. Wells's Popular Quotes

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

- H. G. Wells

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

- H. G. Wells

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

- H. G. Wells

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

- H. G. Wells

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

- H. G. Wells

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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Our true nationality is mankind.

- H. G. Wells

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you…

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

- H. G. Wells