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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Jules Verne

So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
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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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
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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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
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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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea

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