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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
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Jules Gabriel 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.
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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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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.
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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.
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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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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.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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.
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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.
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