Herman Melville quotes
1819–1891 · New York City
On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
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- The Piazza Tales (first book edition), 1856 · "Bartleby", p. 107 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- The Piazza Tales (first book edition), 1856 · "Bartleby", p. 48 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter XXXVI, "The Quarter-Deck", p. 181 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter III, "The Spouter-Inn", p. 27 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter XII, "Biographical", p. 61 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter CXXXV, "The Chase.—Third Day", p. 633 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter I, "Loomings", p. 1 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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