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" Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! "

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" Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. "

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Higher

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

" 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. "

" However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous. "

" 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. "

" I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. "

" 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. "

Jules Verne

Boundaries

Man

" When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. "

" It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. "

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

" To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. "

" You're never rich enough if you can be richer. "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

" It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil. "

" Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. "

" The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. "

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

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

" When one has taken root, one puts out branches. "

" Is not a woman's heart unfathomable? "

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

Jules Verne

Sleep

Waiting

" To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. "

" Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other. "

" It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. "

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

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

" Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. "

" Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English. "

" 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. "

" Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one. "

Jules Verne

Time

Trains