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

Jules Verne

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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
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
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
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
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
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
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need

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