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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

Jules Verne

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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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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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 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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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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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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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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What darkness to you is light to me
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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