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Been Quotes by Herman Melville
- 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…
- Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing…
- I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
- He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and…
- I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- 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…
- 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…
- But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.
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