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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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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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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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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
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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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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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