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

Jules Verne

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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
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
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
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
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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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
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
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality

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