Herman Melville Quote

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"Un baleinier était mon université de Yale et mon université de Harvard"

Translations

“To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another”

Herman Melville

“Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand”

“There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness”

“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men ”

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