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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Let faith oust fact let fancy oust memory I look deep down and do believe.
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We are not a nation, so much as a world for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.
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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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