Jules Verne quotes - page 3

Their remains but the third class, the superstitious. These worthies were not content merely to rest in ignorance; they must know all about things which had no existence whatever. (Jules Verne)
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. View quote
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. View quote
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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. View quote
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. View quote
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One's native land! There should one live! There die! View quote
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I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. View quote
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. View quote
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. View quote
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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! View quote
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The wisest man may be a blind father. (Jules Verne)
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. View quote
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. View quote
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. View quote
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. View quote
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Le grand architecte de l'univers l'a construite on bons matériaux. View quote
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Variant: They did unto others what they would not have others do unto them, an immoral principle that is the basic premise of the art of war. View quote
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