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“It has never struck you that you do possess a machine! Oh, blind! Oh, dull! It has never struck you that you have at hand a machine wonderful beyond all mechanisms in sheds, intricate, delicately adjustable, of astounding and miraculous possibilities, interminably interesting! That machine is yourself.”
Chapter IEn anglais

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“Men who worry themselves to distraction over the perfecting of a machine are indubitably blessed beyond their kind.”
Chapter IEn anglais
“It catches them by the coat-tails when they are about to make fools of themselves.”
Chapter IVEn anglais
“Human nature does change. Nothing can be more unscientific, more hopelessly mediæval, than to imagine that it does not. It changes like everything else. You can't see it change. True! But then you can't see the grass growing--not unless you arise very early.”
Chapter XIEn anglais
“I do not have to forgive bad weather; nor, if I found myself in an earthquake, should I have to forgive the earthquake.”
Chapter VIIEn anglais

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