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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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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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