Jules Verne Short Quotes

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In the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

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Whoever calls himself Canadian calls himself French.

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The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.

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All things are simple... when you know how to do them.

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I've seen people at Madame Tussaud's as lively as my new master!

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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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Either my calculation is correct, or there is no truth in figures.

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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

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When science has sent forth her fiat — it is only to hear and obey.

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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

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

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

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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

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I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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You are going to visit [talking of under the ocean] the fairyland of marvels.

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But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...

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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

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