French - Author | February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Jules Verne
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It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
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It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
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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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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
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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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In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
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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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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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