Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
("Moby-Dick")
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Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
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And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
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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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