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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Herman Melville

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Nature is nobody’s ally.
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Honor lies in the mane of a horse.
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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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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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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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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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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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