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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Herman Melville

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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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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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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