Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and … - Jules Verne

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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Jules Verne

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

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