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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
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It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
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