• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author 1866-1946
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1. comfortable
2. intervening
3. perception
4. something
5. serious
6. attempt

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. by : H.G. Wells

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