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I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously
– Jules Verne

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  1. 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. – Jules Verne
  2. [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. – Jules Verne
  3. But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer. – Jules Verne
  4. In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library. – Jules Verne
  5. The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotionit is the -˜Living Infinite… – Jules Verne
  6. It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. – Jules Verne
  7. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! – Jules Verne
  8. …why, I’ve just this instant found out… that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days. – Jules Verne
  9. Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest – Jules Verne
  10. Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! – Jules Verne
  11. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne
  12. If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. – Jules Verne
  13. Aures habent et non audient` – `They have ears but hear not – Jules Verne
  14. One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary. – Jules Verne
  15. Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. – Jules Verne
  16. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. – Jules Verne
  17. Brennan’s inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled. – Zoe Chant
  18. It’s easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything. – C JoyBell C
  19. Most of the time when you laugh, it’s because something is amiss – clumsy or wrong or sad – but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy. – Laura Amy Schlitz
  20. Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back. – Saru Singhal
  21. Smile and laugh… Laugh and smile… Laugh and smile every day – Heather Wolf
  22. Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans. – Dennis Prager
  23. I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
  24. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  25. If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
  26. I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can’t imagine them properly now. – Jo Walton
  27. My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth. – Nichole McElhaney
  28. I wanted to live in your heart and in your dreams.I wanted to enjoy your love, laughter and screams. – Debasish Mridha
  29. As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that-¦they have surely won. – James Morris Robinson
  30. A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time. – Sally Magnusson
  31. Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing. – Nina LaCour
  32. Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself. – Laura Hillenbrand
  33. Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself. – Laura Hillenbrand
  34. Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself. – Laura Hillenbrand
  35. I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up. – Fennel Hudson
  36. I protect myself by refusing to know myself. – Floriano Martins
  37. Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. – Mindy Greenstein
  38. All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children. – Marty Rubin
  39. Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us. – Randy Alcorn
  40. Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland

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