I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEThe sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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