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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Herman Melville

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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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
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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Horror Life Ocean Surround
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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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
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Accident Fame Merit One Liner
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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Contrast Existence Quality World
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Hard Knowledge Limitation Subject
Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Attitude Fate Laughter Life Myself Path
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
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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Deep Earth Effort Ground Herself Mindset Thinking
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
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Dishonor Himself Respect
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Atheist Communication Kindness Men Principle Rule Thinking
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

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