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Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: August 1
Died: 1891
Died: September 28
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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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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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
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