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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with H >> Quotes By Herman Melville |
| Quote #1: | "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." |
| Quote #2: | "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." |
| Quote #3: | "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." |
| Quote #4: | "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." |
| Quote #5: | "Life's a voyage that's homeward bound." |
| Quote #6: | "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things." |
| Quote #7: | "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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