Playing Gulliver
Michel Ardan: But we shall be regular Herculeses in the moon!
Nicholl: Yes … for if the height of the Selenites is in proportion to the density of their globe, they will be scarcely a foot high.
Michel Ardan: Lilliputians! … I shall play the part of Gulliver. We are going to realize the fable of the giants. This is the advantage of leaving one’s own planet and over-running the solar world.
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Context: The travelers discuss how weak lunar gravity would make them stronger.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter VIII: At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues