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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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
English
Especially
Possible
Everything
Eccentric

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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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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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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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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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