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The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a l

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells

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