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" They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. "

Herman Melville

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" Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. "

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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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" 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 practical joke. "

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" At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. "

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" I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. "

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" To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. "

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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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" A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. "

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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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" 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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