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Jules Verne

That freedom was a right, that the very first of the natural rights of man was to be free and to belong only to himself, would seem to be self-​evident, and yet thousands of years had to pass before the glorious thought was generally accepted, and the nations of earth had the courage to proclaim it.

Jules Verne, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881), p. 2.

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