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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
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Everything
Eccentric
English
Especially

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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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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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....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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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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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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