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

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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
Eccentric
English
Especially
Possible
Everything

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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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