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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
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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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 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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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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