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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
— Herman Melville
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
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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
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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
— Herman Melville
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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
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
— Herman Melville
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