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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
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
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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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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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