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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick, 1851

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

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Born: August 1, 1819

Died: September 28, 1891 (aged 72)

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