"Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily."
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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"
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"What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?"
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"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."
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"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York."
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"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."
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"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome."
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"When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken."
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"There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank."
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"Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want."
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"A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same."
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"During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland"
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"What you do for money you do badly."
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"With time and thought, one can do a good job."
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"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."
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"In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless."
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"Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one."
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"External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!"
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"On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man"
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"I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me."
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