Jules Verne quote about caution from Around the World in 80 Days - rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
 Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (1873). copy citation

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Author Jules Verne
Source Around the World in 80 Days
Topic caution americans
Date 1873
Language English
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Note Translated by George Makepeace Towle
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/103/103-h/103-h.htm

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“According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it was impossible to risk the passage. He did not in any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge. It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Passepartout, not daring to apprise his master of what he heard, listened with set teeth, immovable as a statue.
"Hum!" cried Colonel Proctor; "but we are not going to stay here, I imagine, and take root in the snow?"” source
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