He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
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Herman Melville
These are some quotes by American author Herman Melville Novelist, who lived between August 1, 1819 and September 28, 1891.
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