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Melville Herman QUOTES

  • I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

  • It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  • Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

  • There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.



  • A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

  • We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  • He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

  • Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  • It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

  • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.


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