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Herman Melville

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.


— Herman Melville


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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.


— Herman Melville


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


— Herman Melville


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


— Herman Melville


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Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?


— Herman Melville


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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.


— Herman Melville


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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.


— Herman Melville


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Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.


— Herman Melville


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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.


— Herman Melville


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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.


— Herman Melville


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Did you know about Herman Melville?

At first his progress on Moby-Dick moved swiftly. In June he described the book to his English publiHerman Melviller as "a romance of adventure founded upon certain wild legends in the Southern Sperm Whale FiHerman Melvilleries" and promised it would be done by the fall. Melville also wrote Billy Budd White-Jacket Israel Potter Redburn Typee Omoo Pierre The Confidence-Man and many short stories including "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" and "Benito Cereno" and works of various genres.

In 1919 the unfiniHerman Melvilled manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was discovered by his first biographer. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer essayist and poet.

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