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Jules Gabriel Verne (/vɜːrn/; French: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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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?

Ends, Nature, Sea, Speak

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Argument, Arguments, Destroyed, Force, Use

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

Bosom, Independence, Masters, Monsieur, Recognize, Sea

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Continents, Doe, Earth, Men, Needs

Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air?. . . You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.

Believe, Devour, Machines, Solid, Space, Struggle

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

Continents, Earth, Men, Needs

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Everywhere, Spirit, Travel, Travelled

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.

Everybody, Knows, Land, Soul, Squares, Thousand

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Joke, Serious, Talking, Thing, True, Wagers

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

Boughs, Elephants, Sound, Tree, Trees, Tusks

Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.

Cried, Description, Rope, Springing, Uncles, Want

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Course, Faces, Hands, Honest, Would Be

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.

Culture, Enjoy, Establish, Experiences, New Experiences, World

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Hope, Hope Of Success, Persevere, Undertake, Without Hope

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

Bet, Doe, Englishman, Important, Joke, Matter

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

Bags, Comfortably, Fogg, Lady, Travel, World

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

Ammunition, Feet, Layers, Provisions, Sea, Thinking

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

Animal, Elephants, Giants, Grand, Human, Sea

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

Endowed, Heart, Keep, Long, Soul

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

Like, Writer

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