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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

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The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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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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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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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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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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