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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”

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Look with all your eyes, look.

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“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.…

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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…

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Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president…

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Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long…

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

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It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles…

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“My uncle” is the natives’ usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity…

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“Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the…

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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

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“— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano…

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It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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