Herman Melville's Quote - Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by

Quote by Herman Melville

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – 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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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

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Truth is in things, and not in words. – Herman Melville

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