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81 " Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul. "
― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
82 " What you do for money you do badly. "
― Jules Verne , The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
83 " 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. "
84 " 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. "
― Jules Verne , Journey to the Center of the Earth
85 " Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. "
― Jules Verne , Around the World in Eighty Days
86 " A scholar has to know a little of everything. "
87 " Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. "
― Jules Verne , The Mysterious Island
88 " IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE "
89 " Man is never perfect, nor contended. "
90 " What!You know German? "
91 " I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new. "
92 " As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme "
93 " At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other. "
94 " Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. "
95 " 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. "
96 " 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. "
97 " There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language. "
98 " Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus. "
99 " One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship. "
100 " Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice. "