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'She was a dreadful woman,' said Mrs Bantry with conviction. 'If George Pritchard had brained her with a hatchet and there had been any woman on the jury, he would have been triumphantly acquitted.'
“For I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
“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. I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
― Moby-Dick
― Moby-Dick
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