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First Quotes by Herman Melville
- Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it…
- We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do.
- It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
- The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my…
- In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary…
- Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the…
- 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…
- Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,…
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