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Book: Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Quotes of Book: Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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  1. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
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  2. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.
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  3. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.
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  4. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
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  5. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?
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  6. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses
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  7. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    Heaven have mercy on us all-Presbyterians and Pagans alike- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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  8. Herman Melville _ Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

    Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
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