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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel 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.
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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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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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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