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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.

Jules Verne

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
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
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
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
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
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
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
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
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
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
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth 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
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
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul

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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