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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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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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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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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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