Quote by H.G. Wells
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells

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Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. – Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. – Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”

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The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. – Sloan Wilson

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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. – Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

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