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Strange Quotes by Herman Melville
- Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
- 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…
- Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast…
- 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…
- Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest…
- The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big…
- 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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