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Bartleby (1853)
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Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
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"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply.
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And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous- a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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Born:
August 1, 1819
Died:
September 28, 1891
(aged 72)
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