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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
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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Everything

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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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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray 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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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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