Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

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For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Herman Melville in Moby Dick
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