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. -- Herman Melville
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. -- Herman Melville
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. -- Herman Melville
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