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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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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
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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!
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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.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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.
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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.
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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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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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