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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
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