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Jules Verne: The Complete Collection QUOTES

Jules Verne: The Complete Collection QUOTES

1 " None can sleep more soundly than a Turk, when the Turk has a good digestion and an easy conscience. This was the case with Kéraban, and many attempts were made to rouse him. "

― Jules Verne , Jules Verne: The Complete Collection

2 " The Kalmucks are small of stature, but robust; excellent horsemen, quick, agile, and smart. Their food is a little flour, mixed with water, and cooked with horseflesh. But they are confirmed drunkards, skilful thieves, ignorant, superstitious to excess, incorrigible gamblers, like all the nomads of the Caucasian steppes. "

― Jules Verne , Jules Verne: The Complete Collection

3 " That may be, for there is a reason for everything, and nothing happens without a cause, which God sometimes lets students find out; so, Doctor, find it out if you can. "

― Jules Verne , Jules Verne: The Complete Collection

4 " for nothing’s more natural than for one man to give himself up to save two others. That’s mathematics! "

― Jules Verne , Jules Verne: The Complete Collection

5 " A curious country,” writes Van Mitten in his note-book, as he hastily jotted down some random impressions of the journey. “The women work in the fields and carry burthens, while the men spin flax and knit in wool.” The worthy Dutchman was not mistaken: such are still the customs in the distant province of Lazistan, where the second portion of the journey was commenced. "

― Jules Verne , Jules Verne: The Complete Collection