"I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could."

-- Simo Hayha

#Duty Quotes #Wells Quotes

“With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.”
“When I talk to idiots, I get loud!”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016
“I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach.”
“My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”
“In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.”
“The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.”
“The basic and essential human is the woman.”
“The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.”

Source : "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain". Book by Roderick Floud, Volume 1. p. 363, 2014.

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