By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the e…

H. G. Wells
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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. ✨ H. G. Wells (1898). The War of the Worlds, p.270
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