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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.

Herman Melville

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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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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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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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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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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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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