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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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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
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Failure is the test of greatness.
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To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
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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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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
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The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.
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