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H. G. Wells1866–1946

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

H. G. Wells on envy

The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter I

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