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" 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. "

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" We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. "

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

" The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

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

" 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. "

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" Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. "

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" Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. "

" To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. "

" One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes. "

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" Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! "

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