They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; …

H. G. Wells
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions. ✨ H.G. Wells (2011). The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, p.389, Everyman's Library
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions. ✨ H.G. Wells (2011). The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, p.389, Everyman's Library

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