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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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The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.
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Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
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Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.
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Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
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Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.
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O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
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Talk not to me of blasphemy, man I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
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