H. G. Wells Quotes

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

H. G. Wells

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• If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • High
  • Failure