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A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Jules Verne

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion it is the 'Living Infinite.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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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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It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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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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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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