Herman Melville Quotes



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“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”

“It's better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation.”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

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