It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEI say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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