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Quotation from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
“intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter I (The Eve of the War) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36)
The narrator describes the minds on Mars that watched the earth before the invasion.
Citation: "intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter I (The Eve of the War) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36). (id the-war-of-the-worlds-q2)
Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
