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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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idolatry
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite'...The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.
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If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
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But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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numbers
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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A well-used minimum suffices for everything.
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What darkness to you is light to me
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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last-remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"
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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."
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Mr. Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from palatable. He rang for the landlord, and, on his appearance, said, fixing his clear eyes upon him, "Is this rabbit, sir?" "Yes, my lord," the rogue boldly replied, "rabbit from the jungles." "And this rabbit did not mew when he was killed?" "Mew, my lord! What, a rabbit mew! I swear to you--" "Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats..
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!
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Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
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It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth."
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Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
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Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added."
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verne
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Man is never perfect, nor contended.
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What!You know German?
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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humour
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At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science. Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen.
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He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
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possibility
precision
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One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
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There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."
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