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Herman Melville

“I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country.”

Herman Melville, Moby Dick
tags: felicity
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Moby Dick (Calico Illustrated Classics) Moby Dick by Jan Fields
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