What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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 am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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