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Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
— Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener
Tags: happiness

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
Tags: imitation, fail, originality, than, succeed, better, success
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
— Herman Melville
Tags: better, think, world, wise
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
— Herman Melville
Tags: accomplish, cannot, habit, strange
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
— Herman Melville
Tags: last, hell, hate, heart
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
— Herman Melville
Tags: some, nothing, will, men
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