Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
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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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Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
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Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
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It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
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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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I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.
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If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
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The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.
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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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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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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.