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“Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.”

Quote by Herman Melville

Book:Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

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Works: Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver

This volume brings together a selection of prose writings, including the renowned novella 'Billy Budd,' and additional prose pieces. Edited by R. W. Weaver, the collection offers readers a curated assortment of literary works. more

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was a renowned 19th-century American novelist known for his profound psychological descriptions and unique literary style. His masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick', is considered a classic of American literature. more

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“It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.”

Should Sensible Indispensable Englishmen Glitter Glare Decor Opulence

Book:Herman Melville The Dover Reader

Source: Herman Melville The Dover Reader

“Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.”

Men Feels Soul Character Found Noble Skulls Spine Backbone

Book:Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

“To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.”

Self Feelings Certain Command Drivers Temperament Hacks Coarse Insolence Deep Feeling Jeering

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.”

Men World May Done Mere Guilty Indifferent Worldly

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.”

People May Wisdom Passion Wise Wise People

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.”

Men May Action Haste

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.”

Knows Care Father Family Know How Son

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.”

People Family Affair Gossip Tedious

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“In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.”

Men Order Passion Study Judging Please Judgment Operations Disgusting Prevailing

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.”

Writing Failing Talent Verses Indignation

Author:Juvenal