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

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
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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You are going to visit the 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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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