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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

~Jules Verne

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The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

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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.

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How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

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The 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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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

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A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 8th, 1828

Died: March 24th, 1905

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