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Herman Melville

"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."

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"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

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"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."
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"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab."
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"He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea."
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"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
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"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."
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