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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
Everything
Eccentric
English
Especially
Possible

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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