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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
Necessity
Masters
Teach
Best
Listened
Teaches

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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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.
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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.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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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.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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?
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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