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

Jules Verne

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When one has taken root, one puts out branches. "

" You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! "

" Liberty is worth paying for. "

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. "

Jules Verne

May

Enemy

" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "

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

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

" The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. "

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

" A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. "

Jules Verne

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

" As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. "

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

" Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. "

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

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

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

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

" What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? "

" So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. "

" To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. "