“Freedom is worth paying for.”

— Jules Verne , book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

La liberté vaut qu’on la paye.
Part II, ch. VIII: Vigo Bay
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

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