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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Call me Ishmael.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

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