Of All The Preposterous Assumptions Of Humanity Over Humanity, Nothing Exceeds Most Of The Criticisms Made On The Habits Of The Poor By The Well-housed, Well-warmed, And Well-fed.

Of All The Preposterous Assumptions Of Humanity Over Humanity, Nothing Exceeds Most Of The Criticisms Made On The Habits Of The Poor By The Well-housed, Well-warmed, And Well-fed.

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing
exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by
the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read....
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My friends were poor but honest. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), All 's Well that Ends Well -- Act i, Sc.
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