We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
JULES VERNEThough sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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