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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
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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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 say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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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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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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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
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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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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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