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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respec

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. – 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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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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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. – Walter Hagen

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Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You cant be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness. – Sean Paul

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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. – Roger Nash Baldwin

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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. – Gertrude Jekyll

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