God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever that vulture the very creature he creates.
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How it is I know not but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.Herman Melville
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world deaf to its voice and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
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