Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

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I've seen people at Madame Tussaud's as lively as my new master!

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But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...

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

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I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

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As for seeing the town, he did not even think of it, being of that breed of Britons who have their servants do their sightseeing for them.

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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

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