I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEWhen the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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.
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The 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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