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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.

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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
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
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
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
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
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
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
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth

I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.

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