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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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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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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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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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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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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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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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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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