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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Herman Melville

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
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