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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.
- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits…
- People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest…
- I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
- None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest…
- Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any…
- The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.
- Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
- And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
- Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his…
- Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any…
- It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in…
- Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
- But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up…
- truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what…
- I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other…
- If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed…
- Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?
- Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never…
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