Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
We reached the left bank of the Jumna. This important stream forms the boundary of Rajasthan, the country of the Rajahs, dividing it from Hindostan, or the country of the Hindoos. We
These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch...
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
The Chassepot rifle led to the torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will.
That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.
That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!
Réfléchi! Est-ce que j’ai du temps à perdre? Je trouve l’occasion d’aller faire un tour dans la Lune, j’en profite, et voilà tout. Il me semble que cela ne mérite pas tant de réflexions.
No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see.
May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea! If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. Have I not understood it myself? Have I not lived ten months o...
London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable. Now, on this day, though he had not changed the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed w...
It is unnecessary to say that the seeds collected by Herbert on Tabor Island had been carefully sown. The plateau thus formed one immense kitchen-garden, well laid out and carefully tended, so that th...
If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience nor annoyance; it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen.
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures
–¿Qué queréis, señor Clawbonny? ¡Me encuentro tan perfectamente entre mantas! Además, yo he adquirido la costumbre de tener buenos sueños. ¡Sueño
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