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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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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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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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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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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What darkness to you is light to me
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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