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Let us only hate hatred and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
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