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“... for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

“For all his old age and his one arm and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered in order to light the gay bridals and other merrymaking of men and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.”

“Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctiveness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea, Bonapartes and sharks included.”

“Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.”