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41 " Otro habitante de esos mares atrajo mi atención y me hizo rememorar la Antigüedad. Era la rémora, que viaja adherida al vientre de los tiburones. Al decir de los antiguos, este pequeño pez, adosado por su ventosa a la quilla de un navío, podía detener su marcha, y uno de ellos, al retener así la nave de Antonio durante la batalla de Actium, facilitó la victoria de Augusto. ¡De lo que depende el destino de las naciones! "
― Jules Verne , Works of Jules Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Round the Moon; Around the World in Eighty Days
42 " During the years following his capital was doubled, owing to the creation of a new commerce, which might be called “The Coolie trade of the New World. "
43 " empuje "
44 " one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come. "
45 " But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm. The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs. "
46 " C’était un jeune homme de vingt-cinq ans à peine. Sa taille élancée, sa physionomie énergique, son corps vigoureux, son regard résolu, ses traits virils, son front haut, encadré de cheveux noirs, en faisaient un type accompli de la race franco-canadienne. "
47 " La empresa había culminado felizmente, y en su primer despacho, la joven América dirigía a la vieja Europa estas sensatas palabras tan raramente comprendidas: «Gloria a Dios en los cielos y paz en la tierra a los hombres de buena voluntad». "
48 " -Así son los sabios. No saben. "
49 " formed its base. It was the 31st of December. The noontide "
50 " I would give all the land in the world for a bit of ocean. People say that sailors soon get tired of their business; but I've been sailing for forty years, and I like it as well as I did the first day. "
51 " electricity. "