French - Author | February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Jules Verne
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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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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
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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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If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
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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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Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
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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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