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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Herman Melville

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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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