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With time and thought, one can do a good job.

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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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?
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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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!
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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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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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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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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.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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What darkness to you is light to me
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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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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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