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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
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Ladies are like creeds if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
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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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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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