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How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

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

Jules Verne

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. 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

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

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As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

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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 believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

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It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

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Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.

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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

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When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

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How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

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Man is never perfect nor contented.

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

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

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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

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

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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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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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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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.

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When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

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One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

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It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

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The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

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Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

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I repeat that 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.

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