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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Quotes

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. - Herman Melville (Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Quotes)

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Source:Chapter XVI. The Ship
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Herman Melville - Book Quotes
  • Book: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
  • Writer: Herman Melville
  • Genre: Classics, Adventure, Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1851
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