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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us wi

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. – Herman Melville

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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience
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Herman Melville
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville

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Clothing
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Herman Melville
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Other Quotes from
Homecoming
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Homecoming unites the past and the present. – Author Unknown

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Homecoming

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Homecoming

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? – David Wood

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Homecoming

I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

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Homecoming

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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. – Felix Adler

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Faith

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. – Chester A. Arthur

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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. – Werner Herzog

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respect

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith

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