Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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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.
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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.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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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!
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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.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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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!
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
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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.
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.