"But, Mr. Fogg, this estimate of eighty days is the very least time in which the journey can be accomplished." "A minimum well employed is quite sufficient." "But to succeed you must pass from railways to steamers, from steamers to railways, with mathematical accuracy." "I will be mathematically accurate." "Oh, this is a joke!" "A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter. I bet twenty thousand against any of you that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; that is to say, in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand
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