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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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Book Produce Theme
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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Animal Interfere Man Money
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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Blind Evil Ourselves Removal Worst
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Choice One Liner Smile Vehicle
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Belief Death Doubt Faith Food Herself Hope Religious
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
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Earth Enemy Madness Man
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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Care Enterprise Method Order True
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Coward Dangerous Fear Friendship Man
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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Book Brain Criticism Man Rate Safety
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
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Man Material Poor

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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