Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships. - H. G. Wells

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Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.

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About H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (September 21 1866 – August 13 1946) was a British writer most famous for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine; also for Kipps, The History of Mr. Polly and other social satires.

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Birth Name: Herbert George Wells
Alternative Names: Wells, Herbert George • H.G. Wells • Herbert Wells • Herbert G. Wells
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
sell-out friendship
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive "policies" and "Plans" of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word "socialism", but what else can one call it?
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