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Quote by Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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