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View Plans“ ”We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.
Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.
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View Plans"Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time."
Then don’t you despair?” I cried irritably.
“No, certainly not,” was the professor’s firm reply.
“What! Do you think there is any chance of safety left?”
“Yes, I do; as long as the heart beats, as long as the body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.