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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

~Jules Verne

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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 and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

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When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

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Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

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It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

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The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

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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 will find himself capable of any evil.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 8th, 1828

Died: March 24th, 1905

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