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• The wisest man may be a blind father.

  Jules Verne

  Father, Men, Wisest Man

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.3897, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Generosity, Gold, World

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)”, p.123, Jules Verne

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• No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

  Jules Verne

  Compassion, Suffering, Hunger

  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.640, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Jules Verne

  Mean, Men, Useless

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.41, Jules Verne

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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!

  Jules Verne

  Clouds, Sky, Mountain

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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• However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

  Jules Verne

  Thinking, Sea, Feet

  Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.809, Simon and Schuster

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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• During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

  Jules Verne

  War, Cities, Clubs

  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.1, Jules Verne

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• Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

  Jules Verne

  Feet, Savages, Professors

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• The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Future, Moon

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)”, p.112, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Animal, Eight

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

  Jules Verne

  Simple, America, People

  Jules Verne (2015). “From the Earth to the moon (low cost). Limited edition”, p.20, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Uncles, Sleep, Dear

  Jules Verne (1911). “A trip to the center of the earth. Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The English at the North pole”

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Captains, Nemo, Companion

  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.44, Jules Verne

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• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Creative, Captains

  Jules Verne (2013). “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Needs, Earth

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• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  Jules Verne

  Elephants, Tree, Sound

  Jules Verne (2015). “Journey to Center of the Earth”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Two, America, Enemy

  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.79, Jules Verne

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• With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?

  Jules Verne

  Ocean, Heart, Years

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.24, My Ebook Publishing House

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• A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

  Jules Verne

  Talking, Wagers, Serious

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.16, Jules Verne

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• At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

  Jules Verne

  Elsewhere

  Jules Verne (1965). “Journey to the centre of the earth”, Penguin Group USA

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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

  Jules Verne

  World, Moments, Destination

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

  Jules Verne

  Matter, Obvious, Evasion

  Jules Verne (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, p.216, My Ebook Publishing House

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Taken, Prudent, May

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around The World in 80 Days”, p.150, Jules Verne

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• The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

  Jules Verne

  Speech, Cold, Speed

  Jules Verne (1978). “The best of Jules Verne: three complete, illustrated novels, with original illustrations”

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