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In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else. -- Jules Verne
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Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now. -- Jules Verne
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time -- Jules Verne
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This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory. However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons. Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature. -- Jules Verne
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One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary. -- Jules Verne
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In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. -- Jules Verne
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And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature. -- Jules Verne
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Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world. -- Jules Verne
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland -- Jules Verne
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you -- Jules Verne
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. -- Jules Verne
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these words of wisdom, so rarely understood: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men. -- Jules Verne
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What you do for money you do badly. -- Jules Verne
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all! -- Jules Verne
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. -- Jules Verne
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In the shape of innumerable stars. Thus was formed the Nebulae, of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000. Among these 5,000 nebulae there is one which has received the name of the Milky Way, and which contains eighteen -- Jules Verne
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His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability. -- Jules Verne
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new -- Jules Verne
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A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament. -- Jules Verne
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Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean. -- Jules Verne
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Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus. -- Jules Verne
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I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. -- Jules Verne
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Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success. -- Jules Verne
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth. -- Jules Verne
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Poh! doctor, 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. -- Jules Verne
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In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard. -- Jules Verne
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. -- Jules Verne
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11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, -- Jules Verne
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'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. -- Jules Verne
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Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. -- Jules Verne
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In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. -- Jules Verne
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. -- Jules Verne
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Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves. -- Jules Verne
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As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome. -- Jules Verne
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In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related. -- Jules Verne
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Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean? -- Jules Verne
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life. -- Jules Verne
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Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865. -- Jules Verne
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Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? -- Jules Verne
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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread. -- Jules Verne
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I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again! -- Jules Verne
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. -- Jules Verne
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Oh, how hard it is to understand the hearts of girls and women. When they are not the most timid of creatures, they are the bravest. Reason has no part in their lives. -- Jules Verne
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It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure -- Jules Verne
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When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace. -- Jules Verne
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A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it. -- Jules Verne
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A scholar has to know a little of everything. -- Jules Verne
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Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That -- Jules Verne
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The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted. -- Jules Verne
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A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. -- Jules Verne
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. -- Jules Verne
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. -- Jules Verne
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Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. -- Jules Verne
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world. -- Jules Verne
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man -- Jules Verne
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His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk. -- Jules Verne
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If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. -- Jules Verne
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. -- Jules Verne
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Hurrah!" cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). "Distance does not exist!" And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just escaped a severe fall, which would have proved to him that distance was by no means an empty name. -- Jules Verne
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. -- Jules Verne
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Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock -- Jules Verne
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that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same -- Jules Verne
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality. -- Jules Verne
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Why, I've just this instant found out ... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days. -- Jules Verne
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These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and -- Jules Verne
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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. -- Jules Verne
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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. -- Jules Verne
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Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other. -- Jules Verne
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? -- Jules Verne
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert ... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. -- Jules Verne
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. -- Jules Verne
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I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats. -- Jules Verne
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The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. -- Jules Verne
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Cheers for Edgar Poe! -- Jules Verne
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow. -- Jules Verne
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Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heavens. -- Jules Verne
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it. -- Jules Verne
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The superb grottoes or caves of Adjuntah, which rival those of Ellora, and perhaps in general beauty surpass them, occupy the lower end of a small valley about half a mile from the town. -- Jules Verne
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In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever - increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some more economic light than gas, and some cheaper motive power than steam. All -- Jules Verne
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Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures -- Jules Verne
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? -- Jules Verne
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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! -- Jules Verne
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It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. -- Jules Verne
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The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. -- Jules Verne
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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free! -- Jules Verne
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water! -- Jules Verne
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. -- Jules Verne
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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? -- Jules Verne
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Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. -- Jules Verne
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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. -- Jules Verne
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Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned. -- Jules Verne
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The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. -- Jules Verne
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The earth does not want new continents, but new men. -- Jules Verne
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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. -- Jules Verne
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Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not! -- Jules Verne
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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. -- Jules Verne
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One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship. -- Jules Verne
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility. -- Jules Verne
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. -- Jules Verne
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Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us. -- Jules Verne
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. -- Jules Verne
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Oh! What stupids we were! cried Neb.
That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before! returned the sailor. -- Jules Verne
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I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122) -- Jules Verne
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As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent. -- Jules Verne
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-the future is but the present a little farther on. -- Jules Verne
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Most annoying circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has broken all the ties of humanity. You have come to trouble my existence. -- Jules Verne
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Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language? -- Jules Verne
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There's an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn't mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat. -- Jules Verne
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The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. -- Jules Verne
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Well, old Barbicane, they might have cut me into slices, from my feet upwards, before I could have worked out that problem.'
'Because you don't know algebra,' replied
Barbicane quietly.
'Ah, there you are, you fellows with your x's. You think algebra is an answer to everything. -- Jules Verne
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While there is life, there is hope. -- Jules Verne
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These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force? -- Jules Verne
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. -- Jules Verne
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Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment? -- Jules Verne
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Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! -- Jules Verne
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CHAPTER VII Geometrical Details. - Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon. - The Double Receptacle. - The Covering. - The Car. - The Mysterious Apparatus. - The Provisions and Stores. - The Final Summing up. -- Jules Verne
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What!You know German? -- Jules Verne
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I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel! -- Jules Verne
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Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest -- Jules Verne
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! -- Jules Verne
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Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. -- Jules Verne
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If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. -- Jules Verne
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But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside. Enough of these phantasies. -- Jules Verne
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Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man! -- Jules Verne
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The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. -- Jules Verne
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There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language. -- Jules Verne
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise. -- Jules Verne
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. -- Jules Verne
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A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter. -- Jules Verne
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees! -- Jules Verne
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A well-used minimum suffices for everything. -- Jules Verne
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the coast, irregular -- Jules Verne
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages? Where aren't there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages? -- Jules Verne
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten -- Jules Verne
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? -- Jules Verne
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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. -- Jules Verne
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! -- Jules Verne
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. -- Jules Verne
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Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! -- Jules Verne
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My uncle" is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe. -- Jules Verne
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As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America. -- Jules Verne
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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. -- Jules Verne
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which -- Jules Verne
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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. -- Jules Verne
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Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy. -- Jules Verne
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Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines. -- Jules Verne
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. -- Jules Verne
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt. -- Jules Verne
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you must never make snap judgments about your fellow man. -- Jules Verne
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The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. -- Jules Verne
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Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. -- Jules Verne
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. -- Jules Verne
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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. -- Jules Verne
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Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105) -- Jules Verne
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To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. -- Jules Verne
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The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise. -- Jules Verne
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray. -- Jules Verne
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. -- Jules Verne
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What one man can think, another man can do. -- Jules Verne
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. -- Jules Verne
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Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You idiot! - those were mummies; they had been dead for ages. -- Jules Verne
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It is only when you suffer that you really understand. -- Jules Verne
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Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. -- Jules Verne
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! -- Jules Verne
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next! -- Jules Verne
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He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. -- Jules Verne
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. -- Jules Verne
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As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him. -- Jules Verne
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Where others have failed, I will not fail. -- Jules Verne
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It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist! -- Jules Verne
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! -- Jules Verne
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race
unhappily. -- Jules Verne
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Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. -- Jules Verne
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When one has taken root, one puts out branches. -- Jules Verne
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. -- Jules Verne
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God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable. -- Jules Verne
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I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. -- Jules Verne
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What darkness to you is light to me -- Jules Verne
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Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science.
Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen. -- Jules Verne
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Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men. -- Jules Verne
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers. -- Jules Verne
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. -- Jules Verne
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As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. -- Jules Verne
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? -- Jules Verne
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Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club -- Jules Verne
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. -- Jules Verne
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However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. -- Jules Verne
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You are going to visit the land of marvels. -- Jules Verne
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. -- Jules Verne
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It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good. -- Jules Verne
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It is never worth while to do anything by halves. -- Jules Verne
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The wisest man may be a blind father. -- Jules Verne
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I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago, -- Jules Verne
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And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin? -- Jules Verne
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind! -- Jules Verne
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! -- Jules Verne
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Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya," upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake. -- Jules Verne
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced. -- Jules Verne
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme -- Jules Verne
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With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. -- Jules Verne
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You don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear. -- Jules Verne
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IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE -- Jules Verne
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to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business. -- Jules Verne
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But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence, ... -- Jules Verne
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge. -- Jules Verne
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Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on. -- Jules Verne
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If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes. -- Jules Verne
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he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As -- Jules Verne
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His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad of the High Arctic regions. -- Jules Verne
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The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. -- Jules Verne
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That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them! -- Jules Verne
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The happiest animal in the world," he used to say, " would be a snail who could make himself just such a shell as he wanted;I shall try to be an intelligent snail. -- Jules Verne
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My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words. -- Jules Verne
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Man is never perfect, nor contended. -- Jules Verne
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If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference? -- Jules Verne
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I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. -- Jules Verne
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Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik. -- Jules Verne
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels -- Jules Verne
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From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up. -- Jules Verne
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I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope. -- Jules Verne
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proportioned. While -- Jules Verne
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if the seas were cleaned of whales and seals. Then, infested with poulps, medusae, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centres of infection, since -- Jules Verne
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Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. -- Jules Verne
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Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble. -- Jules Verne
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It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. -- Jules Verne
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. -- Jules Verne
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. -- Jules Verne
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. -- Jules Verne
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Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? -- Jules Verne
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At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other. -- Jules Verne
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Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England! -- Jules Verne
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff. -- Jules Verne
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Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death. -- Jules Verne
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived. -- Jules Verne
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Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!'
'I hope not,' replied the reporter. -- Jules Verne
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And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale. -- Jules Verne
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. -- Jules Verne
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In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library. -- Jules Verne
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Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun, -- Jules Verne
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. -- Jules Verne
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Man is never perfect nor contented. -- Jules Verne
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me. -- Jules Verne
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Look with all your eyes, look. -- Jules Verne
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The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. -- Jules Verne
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. -- Jules Verne
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It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions. -- Jules Verne
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Anything you can imagine you can make real. -- Jules Verne
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Two men were promenading up and down -- Jules Verne
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty! -- Jules Verne
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How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! -- Jules Verne
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With time and thought, one can do a good job. -- Jules Verne
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Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied. -- Jules Verne
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Better have two strings to one's bow than none at all! -- Jules Verne
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Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that. -- Jules Verne
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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. -- Jules Verne
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What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile. -- Jules Verne
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Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice. -- Jules Verne
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I am the law, and I am the judge! -- Jules Verne
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer ... -- Jules Verne
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If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. -- Jules Verne
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To the sheepfold! -- Jules Verne
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No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal -- Jules Verne
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I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there. -- Jules Verne
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Mobilis in Mobile -- Jules Verne
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. -- Jules Verne
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. -- Jules Verne
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. -- Jules Verne
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Ben Zoof, whose ideas of discipline were extremely rigid, at once suggested that the colony should be put under the surveillance of the police, that the cardinal points should be placed under restraint, and that the sun should be shot for breach of discipline. -- Jules Verne
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. -- Jules Verne
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. -- Jules Verne
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If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. -- Jules Verne
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I say, you do have a heart!"
"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time. -- Jules Verne
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It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth. -- Jules Verne
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After the example of his fellow-doctors, cured all the illnesses of his patients, except those of which they died
a habit unhappily acquired by all the members of all the faculties in whatever country they may practise. -- Jules Verne
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I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously -- Jules Verne
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I am the Colombus of this nether world!
Dr. Leidenbrock -- Jules Verne
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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. -- Jules Verne
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished. -- Jules Verne
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Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm. -- Jules Verne
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But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories. -- Jules Verne
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Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking. -- Jules Verne
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. -- Jules Verne
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The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations. -- Jules Verne
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One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg. -- Jules Verne
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Monsieur is going to leave home?" "Yes," returned Phileas Fogg. "We are going round the world. -- Jules Verne
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Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country. -- Jules Verne
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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth. -- Jules Verne
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Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed. -- Jules Verne
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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. -- Jules Verne
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Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. -- Jules Verne
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Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! -- Jules Verne
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Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not -- Jules Verne
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I looked at his intelligent forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune and sorrow. I tried to learn the secret of his life from the last words that escaped his lips. -- Jules Verne
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What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? -- Jules Verne
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When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received. -- Jules Verne
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No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see. -- Jules Verne
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what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But -- Jules Verne
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It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. -- Jules Verne
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. -- Jules Verne
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The devil!" exclaimed Ned. -- Jules Verne
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I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. -- Jules Verne
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If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. -- Jules Verne
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days -- Jules Verne
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Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time. -- Jules Verne
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. -- Jules Verne
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Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added. -- Jules Verne
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit. -- Jules Verne
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. -- Jules Verne
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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. -- Jules Verne
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One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes. -- Jules Verne
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning ... and let anything better come as a surprise. -- Jules Verne
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. -- Jules Verne
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Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? -- Jules Verne
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People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands. -- Jules Verne
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. -- Jules Verne
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It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. -- Jules Verne
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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. -- Jules Verne
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. -- Jules Verne
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The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness. -- Jules Verne
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The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress. -- Jules Verne
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You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense! -- Jules Verne
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You're never rich enough if you can be richer. -- Jules Verne
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Oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. -- Jules Verne
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Though, by a just turn-about of things here below, Great Britain has become a colony of the United States, the English are not yet reconciled to the situation. -- Jules Verne
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When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. -- Jules Verne
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To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. -- Jules Verne
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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. -- Jules Verne
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Liberty is worth paying for. -- Jules Verne
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I dream with my eyes open. -- Jules Verne
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Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul. -- Jules Verne
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. -- Jules Verne
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He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome. -- Jules Verne
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. -- Jules Verne
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It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. -- Jules Verne
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create -- Jules Verne
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! -- Jules Verne
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It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. -- Jules Verne
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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known! -- Jules Verne
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Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling! -- Jules Verne
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Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero. -- Jules Verne
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Died in 1814. He was -- Jules Verne
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men. -- Jules Verne
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Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ' We shall be there! We shall be here!' I speak in the present,'We are here, and we must profit by it. -- Jules Verne
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Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted
to know the depth of it. To him this was important. -- Jules Verne