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Everything is possible for an ...

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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Nothing is more dreadful than ...

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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Trains, like time and tide, st...

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

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When the mind once allows a do...

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

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The sea is the vast reservoir ...

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

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The colonists had no library a...

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

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What you do for money you do b...

What you do for money you do badly.

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We now know most things that c...

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

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Well, I thought I was so tranq...

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

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Powder is but a thing of yeste...

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

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The cold, increased by the tre...

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

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One's native land!?there shoul...

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

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It's really useful to travel, ...

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

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[we see that] science is emine...

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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We are of opinion that instead...

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

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On the earth, even in the dark...

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

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No sooner is the rage of hunge...

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

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A cow peacefully grazing fifty...

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

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During the War of the Rebellio...

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

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I say, you do have a heart!' ...

I say, you do have a heart!' 'Sometimes,' he replied, 'when I have the time.

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