Herman Melville Quotes & Sayings

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness

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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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