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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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 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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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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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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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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 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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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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