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[scottobear]

Oh, I forgot... this was on the eraser-board at the shop where I got my bike yesterday -

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells

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[cath555.livejournal.com]

heeehhee. nice little quote.

[gikiski.livejournal.com]

And he wrote that *when*? The man was the very definition of a visionary.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I suspect he wrote it right about the time the bike was invented. :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you can read a lot into that!

[rejectomorph]

That quote is all over the web. A google search on "H. G. Wells," "bicycle," and "adult" got 850 results. Gleaned from just the first three pages, I found the following sites specializing in quotations:
http://www.thinkexist.com/English/
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.quotegarden.com/index.html
http://www.quotemeonit.com/
The problem is that none of these sites give the source or the date of any of the things they quote.
"Bummer." -Rejectomorph, LiveJournal comment, 2002

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

well, he was born in 1866 and died in 1946... so that narrows it a bit, as long as he didn't build that time machine. :)

Oh, he wrote the bulk of his works before 1914.