But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.
• Ch. XVI: Boldly down the crater
• Ch. XVI: Boldly down the crater
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Mais aux grandes douleurs le ciel mêle incessamment les grandes joies, et il réservait au professeur Lidenbrock une satisfaction égale à ses désespérants ennuis.
— Jules Verne
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• Ch. XVI: Boldly down the crater" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Jules Verne" (Quotes, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864): Voyage au Centre de la Terre. Trans. Frederick Amadeus Malleson (1877). French text here. English text here.)
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About Jules Verne
Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.
About Jules Verne
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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