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Herman Melville

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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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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
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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Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Draw Map One Liner Place True
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
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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Below Further Future Hope Past Present Reach Scale
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Rule Sleep Thinking Yourself
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
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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Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
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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Heaven Mercy Need Repair Sadness
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor

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