“Man is never perfect, nor contented.”

—  Jules Verne, book The Mysterious Island

L’homme n’est jamais ni parfait, ni content.
Source: The Mysterious Island (1874), Part I, ch. XXII

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French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

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