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| In social halls a favored guest In years that follow victory won, How sweet to feel your festal fame In womans glance instinctive thrown: Repose is yoursyour deed is known, |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. poet, novelist. Commemorative of a Naval Victory (l. 1014). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| Behold here the fate of a sailor! They give him the last toss, and no one asks whose child he was. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 12, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). On the occasion of a burial at sea. ~ |
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| Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, saying.Gifford Pinchot, Roosevelt as President in State Papers as Governor and President, 18991909 (vol. 15 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), p. xxxiii (1926). Pinchot commented, There are few sayings of his that hold for me so much of him as this. ~ |
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| >consult guide about Zaphod Beeblebrox The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry: Zaphod Beeblebrox is the current President of the Galaxy. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Song of the Broad-Axe. ~ |
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| As a philanthropist in general, and a friend to the Polynesians in particular, I hope that these Edens of the South Seas, blessed with fertile soils and peopled with happy natives, many being yet uncontaminated by the contact of civilization, will long remain unspoiled in their simplicity, beauty, and purity. And as for annexation, I beg to offer up an earnest prayerand I entreat all present and all Christians to join me in itthat the banns of that union should be forbidden until we have found for ourselves a civilization morally, mentally, and physically higher than one which has culminated in almshouses, prisons, and hospitals. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. The South Seas (1858-59), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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| As far as angels' ken. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 59. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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