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By Herman Melville
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.
- Source
- 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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- Internet Archive (Duke University scan of the first American edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851; London: Richard Bentley on the title page)
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From Chapter XXXVI, "The Quarter-Deck", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, first American edition). Spoken by Captain Ahab to Starbuck, his first mate.