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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Herman Melville

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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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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Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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