There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the tr…

Herman Melville
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.
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