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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Herman Melville

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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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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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
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Only the man who says no is free
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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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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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