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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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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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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A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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