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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
Geographer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
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