Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. – Herman Melville
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