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

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
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Geographer
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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