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" A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. "
Herman Melville
Whale
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" There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. "
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" They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. "
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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. "
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" Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? "
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" It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. "
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" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "
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