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Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,

11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race
unhappily.

You are going to visit the land of marvels.

Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!

During the years following his capital was doubled, owing to the creation of a new commerce, which might be called The Coolie trade of the New World.

The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.

It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

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

Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Look with all your eyes, look.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Oh! What stupids we were! cried Neb.
That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before! returned the sailor.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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

Liberty is worth paying for.

If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.

These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

-the future is but the present a little farther on.

It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.

The devil!" exclaimed Ned.

But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.

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.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.

You don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear.

I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122)

that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same

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

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

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.

I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

I say, you do have a heart!"
"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

I am the Colombus of this nether world!
Dr. Leidenbrock

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added.

the coast, irregular

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

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!

In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.

proportioned. While

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

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.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

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

I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there.

A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.

From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Where others have failed, I will not fail.

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.

His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.

The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?

I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.