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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Herman Melville

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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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