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• I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

  Jules Verne

  States

  Jules Verne (2016). “A Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.182, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Travel, Bags, World

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around The World in 80 Days”, p.98, Jules Verne

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• [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

  Jules Verne

  Giving, Way, Theory

  Jules Verne (2012). “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

  Jules Verne

  Sea, Independence, Masters

  Jules Verne (1987). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

  Jules Verne

  Math, Want, Figures

  Jules Verne (2003). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

  Jules Verne

  Moon, Attention, Phases

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.19, Jules Verne

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• A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

  Jules Verne

  Yards, Fifty, Bullets

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Robur the Conqueror”, p.4, Jules Verne

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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!

  Jules Verne

  Heaven, May, Buried

  Jules Verne (2011). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.57, ABDO

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• Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.

  Jules Verne

  Uncles, Rope, Want

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.17, Jules Verne

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• Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

  Jules Verne

  Brain, Mind, Madness

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.634, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

  Jules Verne

  Important, Doe, Matter

  1873 Around the World in Eighty Days.

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Black, Able

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.32, Jules Verne

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• Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

  Jules Verne

  Giving Up, Needs, World

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• As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

  Jules Verne

  Typhoons, Programmes, Ifs

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.138, Jules Verne

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• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Future, Independent

  Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

  Jules Verne

  Flower, Sea, Soul

  Jules Verne (2003). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.312, Bantam Classics

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• In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

  Jules Verne

  Country, America, People

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House

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• One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

  Jules Verne

  Land, Should, Dies

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.361, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

  Jules Verne

  Horse, Animal, Rocks

  Jules Verne (2016). “EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS “ Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery and Suspense: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and many more”, p.363, e-artnow

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• But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

  Jules Verne

  Journey, Men, Long

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.2426, Delphi Classics

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• The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

  Jules Verne

  Book, Hands, Library

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.127, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

  Jules Verne

  Animal, Sea, Elephants

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.7, Jules Verne

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• Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

  Jules Verne

  Sleep, Men, Sharks

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.120, Jules Verne

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• Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

  Jules Verne

  Hands, Would Be, Faces

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Uncles, Silence, Design

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.28, Jules Verne

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