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" Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? "

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" It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. "

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" One's native land! There should one live! There die! "

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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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" 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. "

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

" In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. "

" I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. "

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

" Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. "

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

" Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. "

" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

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" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

" Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. "

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" It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. "

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