H. G. Wells Quotes

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

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • American
  • Government