Herman Melville Quote

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.


Moby Dick, Chapter CI (p. 419), L.C. Page & Co. 1892


Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes,...

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes,...

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes,...

Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes,...