There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. - Herman Melville (Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Quotes)

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

Source:Chapter XI. Nightgown
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