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“I started at a sound so strange, long-drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand and I stood gazing...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Who would think that fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!
Yet so it is.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“As time went on, Tecumseh saw that other tribes were willing to sign treaties with the whites, "selling" land in exchange for gifts. Again, Tecumseh grew angry. "We do not own the land!" he told his followers. "Land is like air and water. No one owns it. We all use it in common!”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World: Early Modern Times from Elizabeth I to the Forty-Niners Activity Book 3: History for the Classical Child

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