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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

~Herman Melville

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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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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

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It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

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Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

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The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 1st, 1819

Died: September 28th, 1891

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