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" Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. "

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" When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received. "

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" Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? "

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" On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! "

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" An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. "

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" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "

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

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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. "

" However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. "

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" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. "

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