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" Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? "

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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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" The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? "

" Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. "

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