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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Herman Melville

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Cherish Comic Greatness Myself Obligation Religious Respect
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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Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
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
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
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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Appearance Handsome Judgement Myself Personality
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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Better Food World Yourself
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Friendship Love Sight Truth
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
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Fact Incredible Reality True
The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Eyes One Liner Soul Way
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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Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
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
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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Knowledge Ourselves Reason Wisdom
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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Behavior Human Myself Study Theory
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Failure Greatness Himself Man Struggle

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