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Book Quotes by Herman Melville
- For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
- If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will…
- Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,…
- A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many…
- I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
- To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever…
- Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we…
- The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that…
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