"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
-Herman Melville
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"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.“
-Herman Melville
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
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"Truth is in things, and not in words."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
-Herman Melville
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"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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