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If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

~Jules Verne

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Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

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'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

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Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

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With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

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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.

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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

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The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 8th, 1828

Died: March 24th, 1905

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