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"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."
"In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew."
"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
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"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."
"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
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