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…

Quote by H G Wells

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool,...

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool,...