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

Herman Melville

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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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The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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You cannot hide the soul.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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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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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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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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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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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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