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" A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. "

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" Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. "

" 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? "

" It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. "

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" Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. "

" Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! "

" The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. "

" Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. "

" Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. "

" Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other. "

" In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. "

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

" 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. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

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" 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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