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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life Quotes

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

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  • We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. It saves time.
  • Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
  • Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.

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Herman Melville - Book Quotes
  • Book: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
  • Writer: Herman Melville
  • Genre: Travel, Classics
  • Published: 1846
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