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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Herman Melville

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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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for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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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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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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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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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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