Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNETravel 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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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