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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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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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My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.
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Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.
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Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
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