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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville

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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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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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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.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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