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I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machin...more

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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he mu...more

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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

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Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Natu...more

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Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous c...more

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You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Gre...more

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Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.