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• A mighty work deserves a mighty theme. -- Herman Melville
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects....
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects....
• If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men?
  Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events....
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -- Herman Melville
• They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891)...
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville, american autho
• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur.
  If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....