Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNEThe 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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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