Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEIt 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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