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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.
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It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
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Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
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At banquets surfeit not, but fill partake, and retire and eat not again till you crave.
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