I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
H. G. WellsWe must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. WellsHe spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the
H. G. WellsThings 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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