“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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