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Quote by Herman Melville
It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melvill

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

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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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I dont want to do things on the Internet. – Jenny Eclair

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Travel

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made. – Matt Lucas

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Travel

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal Thats what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obamas job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about. – Anthony Weiner

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Travel

When youre a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And Im not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I dont want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away. – Rob Brydon

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Travel

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Im a dad now and whatever Im doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it – usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times. – Jeremy Sisto

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dad

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. – George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

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Vices

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession. – Ron Ben-Israel

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design