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“Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste— his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart;”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
“Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“While his one live leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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