Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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