Jules Verne Quotes

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They did to others that which they would not they should do to them—that grand principle of immorality upon which rests the whole art of war.

Jules Verne
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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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

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Whoever calls himself Canadian calls himself French.

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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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To describe my despair would be impossible. No words could tell it. I was buried alive, with the prospect before me of dying of hunger and thirst.

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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

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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 have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

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I loved mineralogy, I loved geology. To me there was nothing like pebbles — and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.

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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

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Your x's and zeros, and algebraic formulae, are rattling in my head like nails in a bag.

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In the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

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If there be green in paradise, it cannot but be of this shade, which most surely is the true green of hope!

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