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

Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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My body is but the lees of my better being.
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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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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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
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There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
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Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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